The growing interest in materiality in the humanities and cultural studies indicates a rising awareness of the interrelationships between culture and objects (and sometimes artefacts). This tendency has become noticeable in the fields of archaeology, art history, folklore and ethnology due to a propensity to material things intrinsic to those professions. The preoccupation with technological media that is substantially shaping the cultural landscape entails the question of their materiality on different levels. On the one hand, the questions of the material-economic conditions of technological development and commercialization cannot be ignored. On the other hand, examining the materiality of image, voice and language is critical, since it is the material nature of these physical phenomena that lends historic weight to the analog and digitally stored files as audio-visual documents.