Vertr.-Prof. Dr. Florian Hoof

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Short Bio

  • Florian Hoof is Visiting Professor for “Media History and Communication Theory” from April to September 2023. He is on leave from the Goethe University Frankfurt, where he is Associate Lecturer in Media Studies and Post-Doc Researcher in the research initiative “ConTrust – Trust in Conflict” at the Cluster of Excellence “Normative Orders”. He is currently working on a project on digital trust and conflict. 
  • He was Guest Professor at the Department of Film and Media Studies, Università Cattolica, Milano, at the Department of History of Technology, ETH Zurich, and held a temporary position as W3 Professor for Media Systems and Organization at the University of Paderborn. He was also Scientist in Residence at: University of Sydney Business School, University of California, Irvine, and University of New South Wales. Previously, he held academic positions at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Center for Advanced Studies Media Cultures of Computer Simulation, Goethe University Frankfurt, Department of Theater, Film and Media Studies, and Ruhr University Bochum, Department of Media Studies. He studied Media and Cultural Studies, Sociology, Political Science and International Relations in Germany and Australia, and received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation for both his undergraduate and graduate studies. 
  • His research interests include Digital Cultures and Infrastructures, Social Theory, Distribution and Media Industry Studies, History of Science and Non-Theatrical Film. He is the author of Angels of Efficiency. A Media History of Consulting (Oxford University Press, New York 2020), which received the Geisteswissenschaften International translation grant from the Börsenverein des deutschen Buchhandels. His book “Alternative Sports and Media Distribution – Infrastructures and the Circulation of Moving Images” is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillian, London 2023.

Teaching

  • SoSe 2023, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, „It’s the Economy Stupid! Methoden der Medienökonomik“, MA-Seminar.
  • SoSe 2023, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, » Disruption oder Kontinuität? Digitale Mediendistribution“, MA-Seminar.
  • SoSe 2023, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, „Politiken digitaler Organisationsformen“, BA-Seminar
  • SoSe 2023, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, „Ästhetik, Distribution, und Praktiken des neuen Sportfilms“, BA-Seminar.

Publications

  • Books
  • Hoof, Florian. 2023. Alternative Sports and Media Distribution – Infrastructures and the Circulation of Moving Images. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Hoof, Florian. 2020. Angels of Efficiency. A Media History of Consulting. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Reviewed in: Technology and Culture, Vol. 63, No. 1, 2022, 264-266. doi:10.1353/tech.2022.0025
  • Hoof, Florian. 2015. Engel der Effizienz. Eine Mediengeschichte der Unternehmensberatung. Konstanz: Konstanz University Press.
  • Winner 2017 „Geisteswissenschaften International“ Translation Grant, Börsenvereins des deutschen Buchhandels
  • Reviewed in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 06.11.2015, 10; The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television,Vol. 36, No. 3, 2016, 475–476, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2016.1201899 ; Vierteljahrschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Vol. 103, No. 4, 2016, 494–495; Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2016, 167–172; H-Soz-Kult, 11.09.2015, http://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-23938
  • Articles (Selection)
  • Hoof, Florian. 2021. Digitalisierung und Kritik. in: Geschichte der Gegenwart, 28.11. 2021, https://geschichtedergegenwart.ch/digitalisierung/.
  • Hoof, Florian Boell, Sebastian K. 2020. Accounting for Information Infrastructure as Medium for Organizational Change. In: Accounting History Review, Vol. 30, No. 1, 45–68, https://doi.org/10.1080/21552851.2020.1713184
  • Hoof, Florian, Sebastian K. Boell. 2019. Culture, Technology, and Process in ‘Media Theories’: Toward a Shift in the Understanding of Media in Organizational Research. In: Organization, Vol. 26, No. 5, 636–654, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508419855702
  • Hoof, Florian. 2017. ‘Speed Metal’ – Medien industrieller Produktion und tayloristische Arbeitsorganisation. In: ilinx. Berliner Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft, Vol. 4, 3–22.
  • Hoof, Florian. 2016. Fight Pictures – Pay-TV – Streaming. Piraterie von Livesport in medienhistorischer Perspektive. In: WerkstattGeschichte, Vol. 74, No. 3, 67–84.
  • Hoof, Florian. 2016. Medien managerialer Entscheidungen. Decision-Making ‘At a Glance.’ In: Soziale Systeme. Zeitschrift für soziologische Theorie, Vol. 20, No. 1, 23–51, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sosys-2015-0006
  • Hoof, Florian, Sebastian K. Boell .2015.: Using Heider’s Epistemology of Thing and Medium for Unpacking the Conception of Documents: Gantt Charts and Boundary Objects, Proceedings of the 12th Annual Meeting of the Document Academy, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1–14, http://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam/vol2/iss1/3
  • Hoof, Florian. 2013. ‘Art of Flight’: Produktion, Distribution und Ästhetik im ‘neuen Sportfilm.’ In: montage/av Zeitschrift für Theorie und Geschichte audiovisueller Kommunikation, Vol. 22, No. 1, 137–160.
  • Book Chapters (Selection)
  • Hoof, Florian. 2023. Verhalten Verwalten. Visual Management, Big Data und die Geschichte moderner Großdatenverarbeitung. In: Sofia Gräfe, Georg Toepfer. eds. Wissensgeschichte des Verhaltens. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven, Berlin: DeGruyter. in print.
  • Hoof, Florian. 2023. Media as Mutable Stationaries. Remediating Trust in Scientific Infrastructures. In: Scott Curtis, Oliver Gaycken, Vinzenz Hediger. eds. Epistemic Screens. Science and the Moving Image Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. in print.
  • Hoof, Florian. 2023. The Afterlife of Industrial Film. Weak Dispositives, Choice Architecture, and the Contemporary Circulation of Industrial Film. In: Vinzenz Hediger, Florian Hoof, Yvonne Zimmermann. eds. Films that Work Harder. The Circulation of Industrial Film. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. in print.
  • Hoof, Florian. 2022. Das Problem der Generation in der Computergeschichte. In: Ricky Wichum, Daniela Zetti. eds. Zur Geschichte des digitalen Zeitalters, Wiesbaden: Springer, 33–51.
  • Hoof, Florian. 2020. Media of Trust: Visualizing the Pandemic. In: Laliv Melamed, et al. eds. Pandemic Media.Preliminary Notes Towards an Inventory, Lüneburg: Meson Press, online first: https://pandemicmedia.meson.press/chapters/education-instruction/media-of-trust-visualizing-the-pandemic/
  • Hoof, Florian. 2020. Liveness Formats. A Historical Perspective on Live Sports Broadcasting. In: Marek Jankovic, Alexandra Schneider, Axel Volmer. eds. Format Matters. Lüneburg: Meson Press, 81–103.
  • Hoof, Florian. 2019. Calendar. In: Timon Beyes, Robin Holt, Claus Pias. eds. Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies, London: Oxford University Press, Chapter 6, DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198809913.013.46
  • Hoof, Florian. 2018. Between Recognition and Abstraction. Early Vocational Training Films. In: Scott Curtis, Philippe Gauthier, Tom Gunning, Joshua Yumibe. eds. The Image in Early Cinema: Form and Material, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 111–119.
  • Hoof, Florian. 2018. Between the Frontlines. Vocational Training Films, Machine Guns and the Great War. In: Lee Grieveson, Haidee Wasson. eds. Cinema’s Military Industrial Complex, Berkley: University of California Press, 177–191.
  • Hoof, Florian. 2015. The Boundary Objects Concept: Theorizing Film and Media. In: Bernd Herzogenrath. ed. Media Matter. The Materiality of Media, Matter as Medium, New York: Bloomsbury, 180–200.
  • Hoof, Florian. 2015. Live Sports, Piracy and Uncertainty: Understanding Illegal Streaming Aggregation Platforms. In: Ramon Lobato, Jonathan Meese. eds. Geoblocking and Global Video Culture. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 86–93.
  • Hoof, Florian. 2015. Decision|Culture. Das Ornament der Finanzkrise, In: Christina von Braun, Dorothea Dorn. eds. Spekulantenwahn. Zwischen ökonomischer Rationalität und medialer Imagination. Neofelis: Berlin, 111–134.
  • Edited Collections (Selection)
  • Hoof, Florian, Vinzenz Hediger, Yvonne Zimmermann. eds. 2023. Films that Work Harder. The Global Circulation of Industrial Film. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press .in print.
  • Hoof, Florian, Monika Dommann, Vinzenz Hediger. eds. 2018. Sonderheft Medienökonomien, Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, Vol. 18, No. 1.
  • Hoof, Florian, Tobias Conradi, Rolf Nohr. eds. 2016. Medien der Entscheidung. Münster: Lit Verlag.