Editing Steampunk (section)

===Relationships to retrofuturism, DIY craft and making===
[[File:Shanna-jones-photography-yatzer-truth-coffee-shop-cape-town-11 (1).jpg|thumb|Truth Coffee, a steampunk café in [[Cape Town|Cape Town, South Africa]]]]

Steampunk used to be confused with [[retrofuturism]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Druce|first=Nikki|title=Making Steampunk Jewellery|publisher=The Crowood Press|year=2016|isbn=978-1-78500-215-1|language=en}}</ref> Indeed, both sensibilities recall "the older but still modern eras in which technological change seemed to anticipate a better world, one remembered as relatively innocent of industrial decline." For some scholars, retrofuturism is considered a strand of steampunk, one that looks at alternatives to historical imagination and usually created with the same kinds of social protagonists and written for the same type of audiences.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Whitson|first=Roger|title=Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities: Literary Retrofuturisms, Media Archaeologies, Alternate Histories|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2017|isbn=978-1-317-50911-0|location=New York, NY|pages=14}}</ref>

One of steampunk's most significant contributions is the way in which it mixes [[digital media]] with traditional handmade art forms. As scholars Rachel Bowser and Brian Croxall put it, "the tinkering and tinker-able technologies within steampunk invite us to roll up our sleeves and get to work re-shaping our contemporary world."<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Bowser|first1=Rachel A.|last2=Croxall|first2=Brian|title=Industrial Evolution|journal=Neo-Victorian Studies|year=2010|volume=3 |issue=1|page=23|url=http://www.neovictorianstudies.com/past_issues/3-1%202010/NVS%203-1-1%20R-Bowser%20%26%20B-Croxall.pdf|access-date=April 12, 2016|archive-date=April 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412021640/http://www.neovictorianstudies.com/past_issues/3-1%202010/NVS%203-1-1%20R-Bowser%20%26%20B-Croxall.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> In this respect, steampunk bears much in common with [[DIY]] craft and [[Bricolage|bricolage artmaking]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Guffey|first=Elizabeth|title=Crafting Yesterday's Tomorrows: Retro-Futurism, Steampunk, and the Problem of Making in the Twenty-First Century|journal=The Journal of Modern Craft|year=2014|volume=7|issue=3|page=250|doi=10.2752/174967714X14111311182767|s2cid=191495500}}</ref>