ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the anthology form across historical, cultural, and media variations. This process stands somewhere between a conceptual and a pragmatic framing. Supported by literature review, archival research, data collection, and qualitative analysis, this media genealogy (Apprich and Bachmann 2017) analyzes what the anthology is, what it does, and how it is designed, marking a fundamental step for further discussion on its forms and affordances in digital and algorithmic culture. What emerges in this overview of anthologies in literature, radio, television, and digital media is that, from the outset, this narrative device and cultural form establishes itself as a common practice in search of a definition.
