In 37 Beiträgen widmet sich die Open-Access-Publikation Pandemic Media. Preliminary Notes Toward an Inventory Themen wie Zoom-Videokonferenzen, Masken, Dronen-Videos, Dating Apps und vielem mehr. Weitere Informationen zur Buchreihe „Configurations of Film“ finden Sie bei meson press.

With its unprecedented scale and consequences the COVID-19 pandemic has generated a variety of new configurations of media. Responding to demands for information, synchronization, regulation, and containment, these “pandemic media” reorder social interactions, spaces, and temporalities, thus contributing to a reconfiguration of media technologies and the cultures and polities with which they are entangled. Highlighting media’s adaptability, malleability, and scalability under the conditions of a pandemic, the contributions to this volume track and analyze how media emerge, operate, and change in response to the global crisis and provide elements towards an understanding of the post-pandemic world to come.

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