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Jimi Jones | Marek Jancovic
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amateur media technologies
archival assemblage
archival practice
archives
audiovisual preservation
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Author_Marek Jancovic
boundary objects
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Category=GLC
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Category=KNT
decay
digital formats
digital video
digital video formats
digitization
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FFV1
FFV1: Matroska
for-profit
formats
ISO
JPEG 2000
lossless compression
lossless storage
materiality
Matroska
media industries
media production
MKV
MXF
open-source
path dependence
piracy
power relations
preservation workflows
SMPTE
standardization
standards
technopolitics
video formats

Product details

  • ISBN 9780252088759
  • Weight: 340g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Jul 2025
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description
A new generation of video standards promises lossless storage of digital objects for future generations. Jimi Jones and Marek Jancovic document the development and adoption of JPEG 2000, FFV1, MXF, and Matroska while investigating the social and material aspects of their design and the forces driving their journeys from niche to ubiquity.

Drawing on interviews with archivists and developers, Jones and Jancovic reveal the archive as a dynamic space where deeply entrenched social practices produce disagreements but also resourceful collaborations. They contrast the unprecedented rise of archivist-driven standardization and controversies around non-standard technology with the historical dominance of the film and broadcast industries. Throughout, the authors clarify the role of tech companies, software developers, film pirates, hackers, and other players with poorly understood roles in the process.

A timely look at the state of audiovisual preservation, The Future of Memory provides a history of recent innovations alongside a snapshot of a field in the midst of profound technological change.

About Jimi Jones | Marek Jancovic
Jimi Jones is an adjunct lecturer of library and information sciences for the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Marek Jancovic is an assistant professor of media studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the author of A Media Epigraphy of Video Compression: Reading Traces of Decay.

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