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Biographical note: Axel Volmar (Dr. phil.) ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Medienwissenschaftlichen Seminar der Universität Siegen. Zu seinen Forschungsschwerpunkten im Bereich Sound Studies gehört die Geschichte der auditiven Kultur der Naturwissenschaften sowie die HiFi- und High-End-Kultur. Jens Schröter (Prof. Dr.) ist Professor für Theorie und Praxis multimedialer Systeme am Medienwissenschaftlichen Seminar der Universität Siegen. Einen seiner Forschungsschwerpunkte bildet die HiFi- und High-End-Kultur.

Klappentext: The COVID-19 pandemic has reorganized existing methods of exchange, turning comparatively marginal technologies into the new normal. Multipoint videoconferencing in particular has become a favored means for web-based forms of remote communication and collaboration without physical copresence. Taking the recent mainstreaming of videoconferencing as its point of departure, this anthology examines the complex mediality of this new form of social interaction. Connecting theoretical reflection with material case studies, the contributors question practices, politics and aesthetics of videoconferencing and the specific meanings it acquires in different historical, cultural and social contexts.

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.

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. ; 282 Seiten

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Infrastructures of Time: An Introduction to Hardwired Temporalities -- Part I Media Philosophies of Time Patterning -- 1. The Suspension of Irreversibility: The Fundamental (and Futile) Task of Media -- 2. Time and Technology: The Temporalities of Care -- 3. Problems of Temporality in the Digital Epoch -- 4. Suspending the "Time Domain" : Technological Tempor(e)alities of Media Infrastructures -- Part II Microtimes -- 5. Infrastructuring Leap Seconds : The Regime of Temporal Plurality in Digitally Networked Media -- 6. Life at the Femtosecond -- 7. Artificial Intelligence and the Temporality of Machine Images -- 8. Intervals of Intervention : Micro- Decisions and the Temporal Autonomy of Self-Driving Cars -- Part III Lifetimes -- 9. Grounded Speed and the Soft Temporality of Network Infrastructure -- 10. Unruly Bodies of Code in Time -- 11. Screwed: Anxiety and the Digital Ends of Anticipation -- 12. Beep: Listening to the Digital Watch -- Part IV Futures -- 13. Captured Time: Eye Tracking and the Attention Economy -- 14. Ahead of Time : The Infrastructure of Amazon's Anticipatory Shipping Method -- 15. Artificial Neural Networks, Postdigital Infrastructures and the Politics of Temporality -- 16. Technics of Time: Values in Future Internet Development -- Index