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Call For Papers: Vol 2 September 2012.
Deadlines:
500 word proposals: 1st December 2011.
2-4,000 word articles: 1st April 2012.
Contributions are invited for Vol 2 of the Journal of European Television History and Culture a peer-reviewed multi-media e-journal of television studies
Our main aim is to function as a showcase
for a creative and innovative use of digitized television material in scholarly
work. At the same time, the journal intends to stimulate the fruitful
discussion between audiovisual heritage institutions (especially television
archives) and a broader community of television experts and amateurs. In
offering a unique technical infrastructure for a multi-media presentation of
critical reflections on European television, the journal aims at stimulating
innovative narrative forms of online storytelling, making use of the digitized
audiovisual collections of television archives around Europe.
The focus of Vol 2 of the journal, due for
publication in September 2012, will be “Europe on and Behind the Screens”. Proposals are invited on (but are not limited
to) the following topics:
Europe on
the screen:
o
Eurovision or Intervision programmes:
§ Eurovision/ Intervision Song Contest
§ European News Exchange
§ Jeux Sans Frontières
§ Sports
o
National Programmes dealing
with Europe:
§ “With Europe in View” (BBC)
§ European Journal
§ European politics / public sphere
§ History of European integration on television
o
Europe television culture:
§ Comparative studies on European television cultures
§ Europeanization / Americanization / Sovietization of television
§ Development of European television audiences
Europe
behind the screen:
o
The History of European
broadcasting institutions (E.B.U. and O.I.R.T.) and bi-lateral cooperation
between national broadcasters
o
Hidden collaboration between
East (OIRT) and West (EBU) during Cold War
o
Political initiatives to
promote television as a means for European understanding (TV without
frontiers,…)
o
The infrastructures of
European live transmissions and programme exchange
o
Transnational Actors and
Personalities: programme makers, engineers, technicians, presenters
o
Subversive cross-border
viewing practices in totalitarian regimes
o
Commercial initiatives and
programme trade in the European television landscape
o
Legal frameworks of European
television trade and exchange, especially copy right problems
For our “discovery”-section, a platform
dedicated to present latest developments and initiatives in the field of
audiovisual heritage institutions and television archives, we especially invite
contributions dealing with past experiences and future challenges of collaborations
between television scholars and audiovisual heritage institutions. These essays
(2.500 words) should reflect on the practical challenges of doing television
research in an archival or academic environment.
Please send your abstracts no later than 1st
of December to: [log in to unmask]