"Neither good, nor bad, nor neutral": The Historical Dispositif of Communication Technologies

in Schreiber, Martin; Zimmermann, Clemens (Eds.) Journalism and Technological Change. Historical Perspectives, Contemporary Trends (2014)

Visitatie Kunst & Cultuurwetenschappen 2012-2013: Een nabeschouwing

Article for general public (2014)

In de loop van het academiejaar 2012-2013 vond een visitatie plaats van de Nederlandse universitaire opleidingen in de Geesteswetenschappen, Voor de Kunst & Cultuurwetenschappen bestond de commissie uit ... [more ▼]

In de loop van het academiejaar 2012-2013 vond een visitatie plaats van de Nederlandse universitaire opleidingen in de Geesteswetenschappen, Voor de Kunst & Cultuurwetenschappen bestond de commissie uit Bart Verschaffel (Universiteit Gent) voorzitter, en de kernleden Michael Astroh (Universiteit Greifswald), Andreas Fickers (Universiteit Luxemburg), Susan Legêne (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Geert Lernout (Universiteit Antwerpen), Hans Van Maanen (Universiteit Groningen), Mariët Westermann (Mellon Foundation New York). Na het neerleggen van de rapporten heeft de commissie een afsluitende beschouwing geschreven over de toestand van de kunst- en cultuuropleidingen in Nederland. [less ▲]

Airy Curtains in the European Ether: Introduction

in Badenoch, Alexander; Fickers, Andreas; Henrich-Franke, Christian (Eds.) Airy Curtains in the European Ether: Broadcasting and the Cold War (2013)

European Television

in Gabbard, Krin (Ed.) Oxford Bibliography Online: Cinema and Media Studies (2013)

European television has a double connotation: it characterizes both the history and current existence of multiple television institutions and channels across Europe as well as the phenomenon of ... [more ▼]

European television has a double connotation: it characterizes both the history and current existence of multiple television institutions and channels across Europe as well as the phenomenon of transnational, European television. Reaffirming the concept of Europe as “unity in diversity” and acknowledging the contested nature of Europe as a discursive character, both television and Europe can best be defined as projects that need to be continuously renegotiated and reinvented. Both “Europe” and “television” as concepts are constructed entities whose identities vary depending on the topic of inquiry and the roster of questions of those investigating the phenomena. Europe as a discursive construction has been instrumentalized from a multitude of angles (historical, religious, geographical, political, and cultural), and television has been approached as being essentially a technology, an institution, an art, or simply a form of popular entertainment. Historically speaking, the first regular television services started before World War II in Germany (1935) and Great Britain, but the late 1950s and early 1960s marked the real take off of television as a mass medium in most European countries. Transnational television in Europe started with the launch of Eurovision, the organization for the exchange of television programs within the European Broadcasting Union. Until the advent of the so-called dual broadcasting systems in the 1980s, most European countries had public service television institutions, financed by broadcasting fees. The start of commercial television and the advent of satellite broadcasting in the 1980s radically changed the European television landscape. This bibliography aims at offering guidance to the technical, economic, political, and cultural factors that shaped European television since its emergence in the late 1930s. It tries to pay equal attention to both important transnational developments and to specificities of national television cultures. [less ▲]

From colour TV war to non-aggression pact: Patents as actants of techno-political diplomacy in a European standardization process

in Arapostathis, Stathis; Dutfield, Graham (Eds.) Knowlegde Management and Intellectual Property. Concepts, Actors and Practices from the Past to the Present (2013)

Sounds Familiar: Intermediality and Remediation in the Written, Sonic and Audiovisual Narratives of Berlin Alexanderplatz

in Bijsterveld, Karin (Ed.) Soundscapes of the Urban Past: Staged Sound as Mediated Cultural Heritage (2013)

Lire entre les lignes: une histoire transnationale de "l'entente cordiale" franco-britannique dans la télévision d'après-guerre

in Lévy, Marie-Francoise (Ed.) Jean d'Arcy. Penser la communication au xxe siècle (2013)

Tele-Saar. Europe's first commercial television station as a transnational experiment

in Comunicazioni Sociali: Journal of Media, Performing Arts and Cultural Sciences (2013), (1), 6-19

Shifting Sounds: Textualization and Dramatization of Urban Soundscapes

in Bijsterveld, Karin (Ed.) Soundscapes of the Urban Past: Staged Sound as Mediated Cultural Heritage (2013)

Op Zoek naar Televisie (1925-1960)

in Een Eeuw van Beeld en Geluid. Cultuurgeschiedenis van Radio en Televisie in Nederland. (2012)