Dr Iain A. Taylor is senior lecturer in music at University of the West of Scotland, and co-managing editor of Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music.Dr Oliver Carter is reader in creative economies at the Birmingham Centre for Media for Media and Cultural at Birmingham City University.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsForeword – Nicholas GebhardtIntroductionSECTION 1: FORM Short Take 1: My Notebook – Lee Griffiths1. Investigating the Illicit: The Material Traces of Britain’s Early Trade in Obscene 8mm Films – Oliver CarterShort Take 2: ‘Press the Start Button’ – Harrison Charles2. On, Off, and in the Map: Materializing Game Experiences Through Player Cartography – Nick WebberShort Take 3: Making Order Out of Chaos – Hilary Weston Jones3. The Solid State of Radio – Sam ColeyShort Take 4: Materialities of Television History – E. Charlotte StevensSECTION 2: FORMAT Short Take 5: Only Dancing. Again – Philip Young4. Between Analogue and Digital: The Cassette Tape as Hybrid Artefact – Iain A. TaylorShort Take 6: Patch Lead Possibilities – Chris Mapp5. ‘Because It Is Not Digital’: The Cultural Value of the Analogue Book in Digital Age – Christian MoerkenShort Take 7: Materialities of Spatial Confinement: Trefeglwys Meets Beirut – Dima Saber6. Essentially (Not) the Game: Reading the Materiality of Video Game Paratexts – Regina SeiwaldShort Take 8: Materialities and Craft Value – Karen PatelSECTION 3: EPHEMERAL MEANING Short Take 9: Still Angry: Still Feeding – Matt Grimes7. Stamp of Approval: A Prosopography of the English Midlands Videogame Industry – Alex Wade and Adam WhittakerShort Take 10: The Edward Colston Experience – Martin Cox8. Reframing Materiality in the Caribbean Diaspora Podcast – Rachel-Ann Charles and Tim WallShort Take 11: We’re all Victorians Now – Kirsten Forkert9. You Can Look, Share and Comment, But You Can’t Touch: The Relationship Between the Materiality and Physicality of Photographs in an Online Community Archive – Vanessa JacksonShort Take 12: Location, Agency, and Hashtag Activism During the COVID-19 Pandemic – Yemisi Akinbobola10. Thirty-Seven Retweets – John HillmanConclusion: Shifting Horizons of Possibility – Susanna PaasonenNotes on ContributorsIndex

The essays and short takes in Media Materialities offer a welcome new theoretical contribution to our understanding of materiality and shed new light upon the complex relationships between humans and the objects that surround us. As such, this volume will be highly useful for scholars and graduate students interested in media studies, as well as in anthropology, material culture and cultural studies in general.