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Dealing with digitality is one of the most urgent challenges of the present. The increasing importance and spread of computer technology not only challenges societies and individuals - this development also puts pressure on the concept of digitality, which tries to grasp the totality and peculiarity of the conditions and consequences of electronic digital computing (in all its forms). However, precisely because digitality is commonplace, so should be its critique, its analysis and assessment.How can an analysis do justice to both fundamental characteristics and changing concrete forms, infrastructures, and practices? How do the developments of a digitalization that programmatically encompasses forms of networking, embedding, and autonomization shape media, cultures, and societies? How do "artificial intelligence" and "algorithmic government" relate to each other, how does the immateriality of "the digital" fit with the materiality of computers? How does the changing status and scope of this technology mediate itself? This volume introduces ongoing debates and develops its own approach to the critique of digitality, asking about forms of interfaces and processes of governance. The author Prof. Dr. Jan Distelmeyer teaches media history and theory in the cooperative program European Media Studies at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and the University of Potsdam. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com).A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

3D ist derzeit nicht nur im Kino en vogue – der Hype um die dritte Dimension hat längst auch die diversen Monitore des Home Entertainment erreicht. Dieser Band widmet sich dem Comeback jener ›neuen alten Technik‹. Aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven nehmen die Beiträge ästhetische und technische Entwicklungen, Versprechungen und Inszenierungsstrategien zum Anlass, um u.a. die Geschichte des 3D-Films zu rekapitulieren, das Verhältnis von Spektakel und Narration zu untersuchen, nach der Gestaltung der neuen Bilderräume zu fragen, das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Bildfläche und Raumkörper zu erörtern, die Beziehungen zwischen Technik, Ökonomie und (Kontroll-)Gesellschaft in den Blick zu nehmen sowie einzelne 3D-Filme in Fallstudien zu analysieren

One of the most difficult tasks today is trying to grasp the presence of computing. The almost ubiquitous and diverse forms of networked computers (in all their stationary, mobile, embedded, and autonomous modes) create a nearly overwhelming complexity. To speak of what is here evading and present at the same time, the paper proposes to reconsider the concept of interface, its historical roots, and its heuristic advantages for an analysis and critique of the current and especially everyday spread of computerization. The question of interfaces leads to isolable conditions and processes of conduction, as well as to the complexity of the cooperation formed by them. It opens both an investigative horizon and a mode of analysis, which always asks for further interface levels involved in the phenomenon I am currently investigating. As an example, the paper turns to the displacement of the file with the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and its comeback in 2017 with the "Files" apps. Both developments are profoundly related to the establishment of computers as permanently networked machines, whereby their functionality, depresentations, and ideology come into focus.

"Das Bild, das Hollywood-Filme von der amerikanischen Staatsmacht erzeugen, oszilliert zwischen Heldenverehrung, politischer Inkompetenz und Verschwörungstheorien. Die filmische Stilisierung von 'politischer Macht' hat in den USA insbesondere in den vergangenen 15 Jahren rapide zugenommen." (Autorenreferat)

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.

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.

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.