Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: History and New Media / by David W. Park, Nicholas W. Jankowski, Steve Jones -- Newness Contextualized. The End of New Music? Digital Media, History, and the Idea of Attention / Devon Powers -- "All You'll Need is a Mobile Couch": The History of Mobile Television in the United States / Noah Arceneaux -- Cutting the Cord and "Crying Socialist Wolf": Unwiring the Public and Producing the Third Place / Stephanie Ricker Schulte -- Pre-Digital Virtuality: Early Modern Scholars and the Republic of Letters / Christian Thorsten Callisen & Barbara Adkins -- New Media History and Theory. Sound Studies for Historians of New Media / Travers Scott -- What if the Internet Did Not Speak English? New and Old Language for Studying Newer Media Technologies / Zizi Papacharissi & Elain Yuan -- The Evolving Medium is the Message: McLuhan, Medium Theory, and Cognitive Neuroscience / Teresa M. Harrison -- The Analog History of the "Digital Divide" / Dmitry Epstein -- Twenty Years of Unnecessary Forward Slashes: Towards a Post-ontological Critique of Narratives of the Development of the Web / Michael Dick -- Comparative Approaches. Interface: History of a Concept, 1868-1888 / Peter Schaefer -- The Long History of Digital Radio: Old Media in a New Century / Brian O'Neill -- New Media in Crises: Discursive Instability and Emergency Communication / Benjamin Peters & Deborah Lubken -- Pipeline as Network: Pneumatic Systems and the Social Order / Holly Kruse -- Telephone Media: An Old Story / Gerard Goggin -- New Media and Historiography. Web Historiography and the Emergence of New Archival Forms / Meghan Dougherty & Steven M. Schneider -- The Evolution of Audience Labor: Appropriating Online Activities / Fernando Bermejo -- Digital History and a Register of Websites: An Old Practice with New Implications / Niels Brügger -- Placing Location-Aware Media in a History of the Virtual / Adriana de Souza e Silva & Daniel M. Sutko -- "It's Not Really Our Content": The Moving Image and Media History in the Digital Archive Age / Simon Popple.