Abstract
The aim of this study is to propose a conceptual framework for the
analysis of historical programming in digital media. Radical
breakthroughs in the technologies for registration and dissemination of
moving images have created a need for common vocabularies that can
be shared by media practitioners, researchers from different fields of
inquiry, and end-users of documentary accounts. The elements of the
proposed framework are derived from the fields of architecture, genre
theory, and computer software design. It adheres to the pattern
language approach proposed by Christopher Alexander, a
methodology for cooperative design that has been successfully applied
in the design of computer software. The study suggests that this
method for identifying design elements resonate well with recent
contributions to genre theory made by film-scholar Rick Altman and
by computer-scientist Thomas Erickson.
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