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Introduction from the Editor

This section explores audiovisual media related to the historical and cultural study of technology. Such materials include those that might be classified as academic scholarship, as well as those of a more popular, artistic, or pedagogical nature. “Beyond Words” proposes that feature documentaries, television programs, archival film collections, and interactive (webbased) media have the potential for particular kinds of innovation in the study of technology. This section examines media that is made explicitly as historical work, as well as contemporary and archival materials that are, as it were, fertile ground for future analysis. New tools (rapidly evolving cameras, interfaces, applications, to name a few) become increasingly pervasive. A question is how best to put them to constructive scholarly use. We can all agree that there is no clear answer as of yet, but heated discussions about such topics as the meaning of “digital humanities,” and the likely fate of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) make clear that there is much to discuss and debate. With rapidly expanding sets of archival footage and other multimedia research material available online, it becomes possible for us to ask new kinds of questions as well as old questions in different ways. “Beyond Words” provides a forum for analysis of these new approaches, to determine when and why some forms work effectively for some materials, and when and why they do not. The fields of the history of technology and of media studies are converging as scholars increasingly examine the representation of technology