Veins filled with the dilluted sap of rationality. A critical reply to Rens Bod

in BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review (2013), 128(4), 155-163

This article argues – in contradiction to the thesis developed by Rens Bod – that the hermeneutic tradition of humanities is not obsolete, especially when trying to understand the opportunities and ... [more ▼]

This article argues – in contradiction to the thesis developed by Rens Bod – that the hermeneutic tradition of humanities is not obsolete, especially when trying to understand the opportunities and challenges of using digital technologies for future research. The practice of digital history will have to be based on the critical analysis of the creation, enrichment, editing and retrieval of digital data as much as on the application of classical source criticism and historical contextualisation. If 'content' or rather 'data' is king in digital humanities, as imagined by Bod, context is its crown – at least for digital historians. [less ▲]

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 ▲]

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)

Cold War techno-diplomacy: Selling French Colour Television to the Eastern Bloc

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

Shifting Sounds: Textualization and Dramatization of Urban Soundscapes

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

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)

Transnational Television History. A Comparative Approach

Book published by Routledge (2012)

Entre Attraction et Participation: Une Analyse Comparée du Discours Televisuel aux Expositions Universelles de Paris (1937), New York (1939) et Bruxelles (1958)

in Lugon, Olivier (Ed.) Expositions et Médias: Photograhie, Cinéma, Télévision (2012)

Television: Histories from Scarcity to Abundance

in Simonson, Peter; Peck, Janice; Craig, Robert T. (Eds.) et al The Handbook of Communication History (2012)