James Newman is Research Professor and Senior Teaching Fellow at Bath Spa University, UK. He is also an External Affiliate of the School of Public and Applied Humanities at the University of Arizona and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Over the past 20 years, he has written widely on histories of technology, media preservation, digital games, sound and music and has worked with museums across the world on exhibition and interpretation. He is an avid collector and player of synthesizers, drum machines and music technology.