ABSTRACT
Drawing upon the historic-genealogical research presented in Chapter 1, this chapter takes a design-oriented approach to the definition of the anthology form. It starts by providing an overview of narrative theory, as applied to the study of culture through the notions of form and structure, content, and context. It then looks at the definitions of format, as one of the structural components affecting the distribution of media content, along with other concepts related to the field of media studies. The chapter moves forward to explore the notions of forms and affordances in the field of design, in order to observe generative processes of anthological content organization in mediated environments. Based on a formal framework for the study of digital culture, it finally proposes a taxonomy of the anthology form in its contemporary occurrences.
