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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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    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.