VIEW Issue 1: Making Sense of Digital Sources
This first issue of the Journal of European Television History and Culture follows up on the central theme of the first international EUscreen conference held in Rome in October 2010.
The articles reunited in this first issue explicitly address the challenges of contextualising television material online and touch upon such a broad variety of questions as: the ontological status of digitised sources, analysing and interpreting them, how online access to audiovisual sources affects historical storytelling and whether the “archival turn” shapes a new historical consciousness for our European cultural heritage.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial
Editorial Andreas Fickers, Sonja de Leeuw
Articles
European Television History Online: History And Challenges Sonja de Leeuw
Building Platforms For Historians: Making Data Findable. A Critical Reflection On Some German Initiatives Lilian Landes
Towards A New Digital Historicism? Doing History In The Age Of Abundance Andreas Fickers
Why Digitise Historical Television? John Ellis
If Content Is King, Context Is Its Crown Pelle Snickars
Making The Most Of The Archive: Commercial Exploitation Of The Digital Archive On Contemporary Italian Network TV Luca Barra, Massimo Scaglioni
Translating ‘Liebeskummer’: Combo 1965 Alexander Badenoch
Digitising Context: The Case Of The Radio Times Andy O’Dwyer
History In The Backstage Of Romanian Television Archives Dana Mustata
Retelling the Past with Broadcast Archives: Context Makes Sense Matteo Treleani, Claude Mussou