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Academic Valorization of Online Audiovisual Content

Dr. Dana Mustata

University of Groningen

London, September 30th 2012

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Research Output in EUscreen

www.euscreen.eu/exhibitions

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Academic spin-off of EUscreen: VIEW

journal.euscreen.eu

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How can online audiovisual be used in television history

research?

How can collaborations between academics and archivists create bridges between the two domains?

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Challenges of Online Audiovisual Content for TV Historians

The online AV source faces researchers with issues of authenticity and reliability

Research practices of TV historians are outdated for the online environment

TV historians lack methods and approaches for working with audiovisual material

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The paradox of big data in the research domain

While AV texts proliferate in an ever growing abundance, the AV text itself does little to enhance television history research in this age of abundance.

Never before has the AV text been more estranged from the principles of order and origin, central to the historian’s pursuit for authenticity.

 

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Doing Research in EUscreen’s Virtual Exhibitions

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EUscreen Lessons Learnt:New Approaches to Doing Television History

The digital AV source becomes a ‘networked’* object, that not only places the text in relation to other texts, but which also makes visible the agencies interacting in the construction of their history

TV history shifts focus from national histories to comparative phenomena, patterns and practices across countries

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“Para Industry, Shadow Academy:”New TV Histories in the Online Age

Histories of television emerging from archival institutions shadow the discourses of television researchers

Online audiovisual content selected and made available by broadcast archives offer platforms to TV historians for ‘writing histories from below’

European databases (e.g. EUscreen, Europeana) offer platforms for writing ‘comparative histories’

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Building Bridges in VIEW

Writing multi-media television historiesWriting histories from below: using online audiovisual sources to elicit new topics, themes and new approaches to television historyInclude archivists and professionals in writing television historyDevelop new formats for presenting television history that better fit the thinking/working routines of archivists (e.g. video essays, project descriptions, etc.)