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urn:uuid:1f7dde18-d15f-49ae-ade6-bd1b72251f18 03 15 9783957960740 00 EB E107 10 10 02 00000009 01 02 Configurations of Film 01 01 Platforms and the Moving Image 1 B01 Jana Zündel Jana Zündel is a postdoctoral fellow in the Graduate Research Training Program “Configurations of Film” at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her research focuses on moving images in meme studies, digital media culture(s), television studies and seriality. She holds an MA and a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Bonn. Her dissertation examined television and serial paratexts, i.e. title sequences, recaps and outros, as indicators of media cultural change. It was published in 2022 under the title “Fernsehserien im medienkulturellen Wandel”. Jana Zündel is a member of the editorial board for the journal Montage AV and spokesperson for the work group “Television” (German Society for Media Studies, GfM). 2 B01 Philipp Dominik Keidl Philipp Dominik Keidl is Assistant Professor of Screen Media in Transition at Utrecht University. His research focuses on media fandom, film heritage, and queer cinema. He is the coordinator of MI3: Media Industries, Infrastructures, and Institutions (Utrecht University) and a member of the Platform Lab (Concordia University). 3 A01 Sudipto Basu Sudipto Basu is a shadow-library enthusiast and PhD student in Film and Moving Image Studies at Concordia University. He studies the intersections of media-technological experiments and Cold War developmentalism in India. He is a research associate on the Swiss National Science Foundation-funded project Governing Through Design / Against Catastrophe. 4 A01 Anna Bell Anna Bell studied Political Science, as well as Film Culture and was part of the Research Training Group “Configurations of Film.” Her dissertation deals with the heteronormativity of remembrance in film culture using the case of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Since 2014 she has been working for various film festivals. 5 A01 Amrita Biswas Amrita Biswas is a PhD candidate in the “Configurations of Film” research collective at Goethe University. She has published in meson press and Routledge. Her articles have appeared in Studies in South Asian Film and Media and Iluminace. Her doctoral research was supported by Erasmus Plus, VFF and DAAD. 6 A01 Colin Crawford Colin Crawford is a PhD student at Concordia University whose research examines the political economies of platform television and consumer technology. His work focuses on the relationship between datafication and financialization in media industries, infrastructures, and cultures. He is the author of Netflix’s Speculative Fictions: Financializing Platform Television (2021). 7 A01 Vinzenz Hediger Vinzenz Hediger is Professor of Cinema at Goethe Universität Frankfurt, where he directs the DFG Research Training Program “Konfigurationen des Films” and the BMBF area studies project “Cultural Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation in Africa and Asia” (www.ceditraa.net). His publications include Films that Work Harder: The Global Circulation of Industrial Film (Amsterdam UP 2023). 8 A01 Becky Holt Becky Holt, a doctoral candidate in Film and Moving Image Studies at Concordia University, is a researcher who focuses on the intersections between Internet technology, digital culture, and adult content. Her work has been published in Synoptique, Flow, and Discourse. Holt also works as a lab coordinator for the Global Emergent Media Lab. 9 A01 Sneha Kumar Sneha Kumar is a PhD student in Film and Moving Image Studies at Concordia University. Their research interests include constructions of desire, the role of desire in the formation and proliferation of streaming platforms, and negotiations of desire by the state and fandom via police and policy. 10 A01 Isadora Campregher Paiva Isadora Campregher Paiva is a lecturer in “Film, Television and Cross-Media Culture” at the University of Amsterdam. She has an MA in Audiovisual and Cinema Studies from the Goethe University Frankfurt and an MA in Sociology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). 11 A01 Jake Pitre Jake Pitre is a PhD candidate in Film & Moving Image Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. His research focuses on digital media, platforms, and theories about the future, and how corporate discourses of media technologies seek to control what the future can be. His work has been published in Television & New Media, The Velvet Light Trap, The Sociological Review, and elsewhere 12 A01 Clara Podlesnigg Clara Podlesnigg is a postdoctoral fellow in Digital Film Cultures at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her dissertation, written as part of the Research Training Group “Configurations of Film”, focuses on holograms and promises of technology in the context of digital platforms. She is interested in popular culture, gender and technology. 13 A01 Alexandra Schneider Alexandra Schneider is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. Her research focuses on amateur media, decentred film histories, and format studies. She co-edited Format Matters. Standards, Practices, and Politics in Media Cultures (mp 2020). 14 A23 Marc Steinberg Marc Steinberg is Professor of Cinema and director of The Platform Lab at Concordia University. He is the author of The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Commercial Internet (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) among other books. 15 A19 Ishita Tiwary Ishita Tiwary is Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. She is the author of Video Culture in India: The Analog Era, Oxford University Press, 2024. She also directs research lab Raah which aims to examine the intersection of migratory process and media practice. 16 A01 Sam Thompson Sam Thompson is a PhD student at Concordia University, where he researches the relationship between new media formations and social reproduction. Over the last decade, he has campaigned around housing, migrant justice, childcare, and work. Sam’s writing on militant media and contemporary culture appears in various scholarly and popular publications. 17 A01 Zeynep Tuna Zeynep Tuna is a media researcher and filmmaker based in Berlin. She completed her PhD on contemporary Turkish TV and audience interaction at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She studied at Berlin University of the Arts and was a fellow at the Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies and the Graduiertenkolleg “Configurations of Film” at Goethe University Frankfurt. 18 A01 Haidee Wasson Haidee Wasson of a Distinguished University Research Professor at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. She is author of award-winning books such as Museum Movies and Everyday Movies, as well as co-editor of multiple volumes, among them Useful Cinema, Inventing Film Studies and the forthcoming 100 Years of 16mm Film. 19 A01 Yvonne Zimmermann Yvonne Zimmermann is a Professor of Media Studies at Philipps University Marburg (Germany). Her research focuses on useful cinema, media historiography, and digital tools and methods in film studies. Her latest publications include the co-edited volume Films that Work Harder: The Global Circulation of Industrial Film (Amsterdam UP 2023). 01 eng 00 356 03 04 P87-96 23 platforms 10 SOC052000 10 BUS070060 23 moving images 23 gaming 10 PER004000 23 social media 23 streaming 23 digital labor 23 media infrastructures 23 user practices 01 06 03 00 Platforms and the Moving Image offers a multifaceted look at how digital platforms shape and are shaped by economic, cultural, and political forces. The collection examines the effects of gaming, social media, streaming and videosharing platforms on the production, circulation, and consumption of moving images. Through diverse methodologies—archival research, social media ethnography, and textual analysis—the essays investigate the global movements of film and video formats, the platformization of cultural industries, and the evolving nature of media consumption. The volume emphasizes the importance of considering digital labor, media infrastructures, and user practices in understanding platforms’ role in contemporary society. meson press 01 meson press 04 01 20250611 02 WORLD 06 15 9783957960733 06 15 9783957960740 WORLD 09 meson press 20 01