Volmar, Axel

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    PublicationAccess status: Open Access ,
    Copyright law
    (2017)
    Volmar, Axel
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    Hoffmann, Dagmar
    ;
    Klass, Nadine
    ;
    Döhl, Frédéric
    ;
    Kempfert, Kamila
    Contents Editorial Research Articles Formats as Media of Cooperation / Axel Volmar Thematic Focus: Copyright Law Editorial: The Reference as Part of the Art Form. A Turning Point in Copyright Law? / Dagmar Hoffmann, Nadine Klass The Concept of “Pastiche” in Directive 2001/29/EC in the Light of the German Case Metall auf Metall / Frédéric Döhl Transformative Works and German Copyright Law as Matters of Boundary Work / Kamila Kempfert, Wolfgang Reißmann Negotiating Legal Knowledge, Community Values, and Entrepreneurship in Fan Cultural Production / Sophie G. Einwächter Referencing in Academia: Video Essay, Mashup, Copyright / Eckart Voigts, Katerina Marshfield Re-Use under US Copyright Law: Fair Use as a Best Practice or Just a Myth of Balance in Copyright? / Sibel Kocatepe Reports Grounded Design in a Value Sensitive Context / Volker Wulf in conversation with Batya Friedman
    Source Type:Periodical Part
    DOI:10.25819/ubsi/9912
    Journal:Media in action : interdisciplinary journal on cooperative media
    Volume number:2017,2
      412  2229
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    PublicationAccess status: Open Access ,
    Formats as media of cooperation
    (2017)
    Volmar, Axel
    This paper aims to link the possibility of translocal cooperation to the agency of formats. At first, I discuss some of the basic types, features, and functions of formats in order to show how formats frame and configure media in distinct ways. Building on this, I assess the benefits and relevance of format studies in current media studies. As formats tend to stretch across different domains of media production, distribution, and reception, I argue that they are not only crucial for understanding aesthetic properties of media but also the value chains and infrastructures of media distribution. Furthermore, formats link media more closely to specific media-related practices and communities of practice: each format tells stories about how people create, work with, consume or appropriate media. Formats can thus be thought of as both—usually conventionalized—materializations of media-related practices and default affordances which govern and support those practices. Therefore, I argue that formats should be regarded as paradigmatic media of cooperation. Since formats help establishing and stabilizing connections, relations, and labour chains, they also need to be taken into account as fundamental factors within processes of scaling and growth, such as historical formations or transformations of media systems, infrastructures, and industries.
    Source Type:Article
    DOI:10.25819/ubsi/8172
    Journal:Media in action : interdisciplinary journal on cooperative media
    Volume number:2017,2-Artikel_01
      473  170