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Professor an der Universität Amsterdam in dem Team für Fernsehen und Crossmedia und der Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis an. Kessler unterrichtet BA- und MA-Kurse zu Themen wie Medienästhetik, Medieninfrastrukturen, Fernsehen und digitale Kultur, Mediensport und Datafizierung.

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    Ports: On the material and symbolic mediation of global capitalism
    Vélez-Serna, María; Stauff, Markus (2023) , S. 5-15
    Introducing and contextualising the contributions to the thematic section on ports, we discuss the conceptual and empirical productivity of the port for media research. As material infrastructures, ports mediate between land and sea, nature and culture, centres of power and colonised/extracted peripheries. As logistic nodes, ports connect transport and communication, technological innovation and revolutionary agency. Their ambivalent and managed visibility makes ports an intriguing motif of media representations that is harnessed for dramatic narratives, cognitive mapping of capitalism, or for city branding. As such ports help to rethink ideas about the relationship between material and symbolic aspects of mediation, between technological innovation and cultural heritage, between metaphorical and literal media ecologies.
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    A multiplied medium – Reviewing recent publications on television’s transitions
    Stauff, Markus (2012) , S. 322-328
    In recent research on academic knowledge production there are intimations that a certain fuzziness of the investigated object, even a somewhat vague set of questions, are not the worst starting points for scholarship. These points often lead to exciting insights. This might explain why, for some time now, various academic engagements with television have provoked discussions and created conceptual tools that are of interest to media studies in general. Media studies seems to be a field (fortunately, it still cannot be considered a proper discipline) that is more dependent on the on-going transformations of its main object than other academic areas of inquiry. What constitutes a medium and how different media relate to each other are discussed on a theoretical level, but they are usually defined in relation to the dominant media constellation at hand.
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    The Second Screen: Convergence as Crisis
    Stauff, Markus (2015) , S. 123-144
    Dieser Artikel nimmt den >zweiten Bildschirm< – TV-bezogene Nutzung von Smartphones und Tablets – zum Ausgangspunkt, um die immer heterogeneren Verbindungen zwischen mehreren Geräten, Texten und Plattformen zu diskutieren, von denen die zeitgenössische Kultur geformt wird. Sie bilden instabile Assemblagen, die die spezifischen affordances (Aufforderungscharaktere) ihrer Elemente gleichzeitig hervorheben und untergraben. Indem der Fokus zunächst auf technische und industrielle, sodann auf praktische und heimische Verfahren der Herstellung von Verbindungen gelegt wird, wird die aktuelle Medienlandschaft als »Konvergenz in der Krise« beschrieben: Während Medien in der Tat immer mehr miteinander verbunden werden, bleiben die Verbindungen selbst und die Form der Montage in ihrer Gänze flüchtig, instabil und vage. Konvergenz entsteht und besteht als In-der-Krise-sein.
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    Dredging, drilling, and mapping television’s swamps: An interview with John Caldwell on the 20th anniversary of TELEVISUALITY
    Stauff, Markus; Caldwell, John T. (2015) , S. 51-70
    In 1995, John Caldwell’s TELEVISUALITY: STYLE, CRISIS AND AUTHORITY in American Television familiarised media studies with a heterodox methodology, mixing formal analysis and technical insights with work floor knowledge with elaborate theorising. In this interview Caldwell describes how this approach emerged from a conjuncture of practices as different as art school, farm labor, and high theory. Instead of defining the theoretical essence of the medium this combination of approaches allowed for a recursive mapping and drilling of television’s dynamics. Caldwell claims the ‘commercial media industrial systems’ can neither be understood nor effectively criticised with a one-size-fits-all approach; rather, only if we seriously take into account the changing concepts and practices that emerge within these systems. This also requires a pedagogy which does not teach a well-defined model of analysis but rather makes room for collaborative, open-ended research.
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    Ports and the politics of visibility: An interview with Laleh Khalili
    Vélez-Serna, María; Stauff, Markus (2023) , S. 16-34
    In this interview with Laleh Khalili, her book Sinews of War and Trade (Verso, 2020) is the starting point to discuss how ports – through their material procedures and their media representations – contribute to the uneven visibility of the global economy and labor conditions. The book weaves a richly-detailed history of places along the Arabian peninsula that have been transformed by oil and finance, imperialism and nationalism, from the traditional dhow traders to the modern container ports and oil terminals. In the interview Khalili details how some ports have become a spectacle that enacts the technological sublime and caters to tourism, while also obscuring less attractive operations such as bulk cargo and scrap. Their managed visibility offers insights into the infrastructural power relationships they emerge from and reproduce. This was particularly salient in the context of supply chain crises during COVID, which also exacerbated problems of labour exploitation and the restriction of human movement. Ports can also be key nodes of protest through tactical interruption of capitalist logistics. Next to critical analysis, Khalili suggests literary imagination as a procedure that allows for a more complex understanding of the layered realities of ports.