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Oct
26
2020
09:21
Film and media scholars at 51猎奇 Frankfurt dissect the new media world of the pandemic聽
Of drones, dating-apps and Trump鈥檚 COVID strategy
With the onset of the current pandemic, our lives have
become more digital and more mediatized than ever before. But how can we
understand this transformation, and how can we envision our lives in this 鈥渘ew鈥�
media world? A new publication edited by a group of media scholars working in
Frankfurt offers a glimpse of some of the research questions and challenges to
come.
FRANKFURT. The
current pandemic poses a particular challenge for film and media scholars.
COVID-19 changes not just their work routines but transforms their very object
of study: the media. 鈥淎s a consequence of the pandemic, we have to adapt
ourselves to new conditions of producing, accessing, consuming, sharing, and
deploying media for the flow of information, labor, goods, policies, and culture鈥�,
says Laliv Melamed, post-doc researcher in the Graduate Research Training
Program 鈥淜onfigurationen des Films鈥� (). Together with her colleague Phillipp
Keidl, Melamed has initiated and co-edited the collection 鈥淧andemic Media鈥�,
which appears as an open access publication this week.
鈥溾�楶andemic Media鈥� is an attempt to meet
the challenges of the pandemic with a series of flashlight essays which address
current and future research questions in media studies鈥�, says professor Vinzenz
Hediger, project director of 鈥淜onfigurationen des Films鈥�. In that spirit, the
publication鈥檚 subtitles is 鈥淧reliminary Notes Towards an Inventory鈥�.
鈥淧andemic Media鈥� brings together 37 contributions
from the scientific network of 鈥淜onfiguration des Films鈥� 鈥� a network that is
truly global. Contributors include researchers working at universities in New
York, Stanford, Toronto, Seattle, Oxford, London, Lagos, Utrecht, Frankfurt,
Weimar or Paris. The diversity of the contributors is reflected in the variety
of their topics and perspectives: These include the now ubiquitous drone
images, the split-screen aesthetics of video conferencing software, dating
apps, Trump鈥檚 television strategy against COVID, visualisations of the virus or
the development and implementation of the COVID tracing app in Germany.
The publication鈥檚 cover is based on the
current work of MAGNUM photographer Antoine D鈥橝gata, who has been documenting
the impact of the pandemic in Paris streets and hospitals with a heat sensor
camera. D鈥橝gata鈥檚 eerily suggestive images, which are on display at the
Brownstone Foundation in Paris until the end of October, are also the subject
of one the contributions to the volume.
Among 鈥淧andemic Media鈥濃�榮 innovations is
the digital open access publication strategy, which allowed the editors to put
the project in the short space of four months.
All contributions underwent a two-step double blind peer review process.
The project director of 鈥淜onfigurationen des Films鈥� and Professor Antonio
Somaini, who teaches at Universit茅 Paris-3 and is also a partner of Goethe
University in the International Master Cinema Studies (IMACS, www.imacsite.net)
serve as co-editors.
The publication date for the 37
contributions and the introduction is 28 October 2020. 鈥淧andemic Media鈥� is the
latest volume in the 鈥濩onfigurations of film鈥� series published by meson press.
The full publication can be accessed here: , first in html format, later as PDF files
for download. The publication will be available in book form in time for the
holidays.
Meson press is an innovative new publisher
specializing in open access publications on digital media culture. 鈥淔rom our
point of view, 鈥楶andemic Media鈥� is an exciting pilot project鈥�, comments Andreas
Kirchner, co-founder and co-director of meson press. 鈥淣ot only does the volume
perfectly fit our profile, it offers us an opportunity to experiment with
groundbreaking new publication formats.鈥�
The Graduate Research Training Program
鈥淜onfigurationen des Films鈥�, which is funded by the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), has been studying the digital transformation of
film culture since 2017. This summer, the second cohort of 12 doctoral
candidates has assumed their positions and started their research projects.
Publication:
鈥濸andemic Media. Preliminary Notes Towards an Inventory鈥�, published by Vinzenz
Hediger, Philipp Keidl, Laliv Melamed und Antonio Somaini
Images
to download:
Caption:
The temperature of the pandemic: The book cover is based on a photo by Magnum
photographer Antoine D鈥橝gata, who has been documenting Parisian street scenes
and processes in hospitals with a heat-sensitive camera since April (Foto:
Cover (c) meson press/Mathias B盲r/Antoine D鈥橝gata)
Further information:
Dr.
Philipp Keidl
Graduate
Research Training Program 鈥濳onfigurationen des Films鈥�
keidl@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Dr.
Laliv Melamed,
Graduate
Research Training Program 鈥濳onfigurationen des Films鈥�
melamed@tfm.uni-frankfurt.de
Prof. Dr. Vinzenz
Hediger
Speaker
of the Graduate Research Training Program 鈥濳onfigurationen des Films鈥�
hediger@tfm.uni-frankfurt.de