Hands on Media History explores the whole range of hands on history techniques for the first time, offering both practical guides and general perspectives. It covers a range of media, including analogue and digital media; film, television, video, gaming, photography and recorded sound. What can obsolete, discarded communications technologies tell us about past media practices? How did human-machine interactions require and cultivate particular skills and build communities of practice and knowledge? In this wide-ranging and provocative collection, Hands On Media History lays out how media archeology, as a method and a mindset, can retrieve the expertise, ingenuity and joy that accompanied pioneering media forms. Certain to open up rich new conversations about doing media history. Susan J. Douglas, Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor, The University of Michigan