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urn:uuid:40c7d203-9e7e-41f1-8bdd-bd390b82ab38 03 15 9783957961563 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Format Matters Standards, Practices, and Politics in Media Cultures 1 B01 Marek Jancovic Marek Jancovic is a lecturer at the Institute of Film, Theater, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Mainz and guest researcher at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. His doctoral dissertation Misinscriptions: A Media Epigraphy of Video Compression explores the value of decay and error for media-historical research. 2 B01 Axel Volmar Axel Volmar is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center “Media of Cooperation” (SFB 1187 Medien der Kooperation) at the University of Siegen. His research interests include the history and theory of digital media, infrastructures, and cultures, sound studies, digital temporalities and cooperative media. 3 B01 Alexandra Schneider Alexandra Schneider is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz and Principal Investigator at the DFG-funded Research Training Group “Configurations of Cinema.” 4 A01 Erika Balsom Erika Balsom is a senior lecturer in Film Studies at King’s College London, specializing in experimental cinema, moving image art, documentary, and film and media theory. Her book, After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video in Circulation,was published by Columbia University Press in 2017. 5 A01 Oliver Fahle Oliver Fahle is Professor of Film Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum with aresearch focus on the aesthetics and theory of film and audiovisual media, and Deputy Speaker of the German Research Foundation graduate collective “Documentary Practices: Excess and Privation.” 6 A01 Florian Hoof Florian Hoof is a research associate at MECS, Institute for Advanced Study on Media Cultures of Computer Simulation, Leuphana University Lüneburg. His fields of research include digital cultures, organizational media, film and media history, non-theatrical film, and media industries. His book Angels of Efficiency: A Media History of Consulting is forthcoming with Oxford University Press in 2020. 7 A01 Elisa Linseisen Elisa Linseisen is a postdoctoral Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Media Studies at Paderborn University. Her doctoral dissertation engages with an aesthetic theory of high definition images withamediaphilosophical focus. 8 A01 Ramon Lobato Ramon Lobato is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne. His research interests include videomarkets,piracy, and informal media economies. 9 A01 Roland Meyer Roland Meyer isapostdoctoral researcher and lecturer in art history at the Faculty for Architecture, Civil Engineering and City Planning of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg. His research focuses on the history and theory of technical images, the visual culture of modernity and the history of art, design and architecture after 1945. His latest book, Operative Porträts: Eine Bildgeschichte der Identifizierbarkeit von Lavater bis Facebook,was published by Konstanz University Press in 2019. 10 A01 Kalani Michell Kalani Michell is Assistant Professor of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at the University of California Los Angeles. Her primary research interests include film studies, media theory and historiography, installation and performance art, and print culture. 11 A01 Antonio Somaini Antonio Somaini is Professor in Film, Media, and Visual Culture Theory at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. His works deals with the history of film and media theories (W. Benjamin, S.M. Eisenstein, L. Moholy-Nagy, D. Vertov) and withkeyissues in contemporary visual and media culture, such as the implications of high and low definition, and the new forms of machine vision. He is currently working onabook entitled Medium Archaeology (University of Minnesota Press) and on an exhibition entitled Time Machine. Cinematic Temporalities (Parma, Italy, January-May 2020). 12 A01 Markus Stauff Markus Stauff works at the Media Studies department at the University of Amsterdam. His main research areas are television and digital media, governmentality studies, and media sports. For publications see: https:// www.uva.nl/profiel/s/t/m.stauff/m.stauff.html. 13 A01 Wanda Strauven Wanda Strauven teaches Film and Media Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. Her research focuses on early cinema, touchbased media and screen practices of post-cinema from interactive media installations to creative media hacking by today’s children. 14 A01 Julian Thomas Julian Thomas is Professor of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne. He is interested in the histories of new communications technologies and informal media economies. 01 eng 00 285 03 12 APFA 23 Formats 04 P87-96 10 PER004030 23 Formatting 12 GLP 10 LAN025020 12 JFD 23 Media Cultures 10 SOC052000 10 BUS070060 12 JFD 23 Politics 10 COM030000 12 JFDT 23 Practices 12 KNT 23 Standards 12 UKS 01 06 03 00 From TIFF files to TED talks, from book sizes to blues stations—the term “format” circulates in a staggering array of contexts and applies to entirely dissimilar objects and practices. How can such a pliable notion meaningfully function as an instrument of classification in so many industries and scientific communities? Comprising a wide range of case studies on the standards, practices, and politics of formats from scholars of photography, film, radio, television, and the Internet, Format Matters charts the many ways in which formats shape and are shaped by past and present media cultures. This volume represents the first sustained collaborative effort to advance the emerging field of format studies. meson press 01 meson press 04 01 20200226 02 WORLD 06 15 9783957961556 06 15 9783957961563 WORLD 09 meson press 20 01