[ecrea] EUscreen releases open access 'Journal of European Television History and Culture'

*EUscreen releases open access /Journal of European Television History 
and Culture/*

Hilversum, 08/03/2012 -

Today, the EUscreen project releases the first peer-reviewed, 
multi-media and open access e-journal in the field of *European 
television history and culture*. The aim of this e-journal is to provide 
an international platform for outstanding research and reflection on 
television as an important part of our European cultural heritage.

The Journal of European Television History and Culture 
<http://journal.euscreen.eu/> builds on recent digitisation initiatives 
in European archives and audiovisual libraries and addresses the need 
for *critical study* of the cultural, social and political role of 
television in Europe's past and presence with the help of television 
material that has now become available at a large scale.

The first issue of the journal is a prototype, created in the open 
access publishing platform Open Journal Systems 
<http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs>. The second version, due to appear in 
September 2012, will add important technical functionalities that will 
turn it into a true multimedia platform for online storytelling.

The journal is the result of a cooperation between the EUscreen platform 
and researchers from the European Television History Network 
<http://cms.hum.uu.nl/ethn/> (ETHN), which was launched in 2004 to 
promote a transnational perspective on the history and culture of 
television in Europe. It is published by the Utrecht University Library 
(Igitur publishing 
<http://www.uu.nl/university/library/nl/igitur/Pages/default.aspx?refer=/igitur>) 
in collaboration with Utrecht University, Maastricht University and 
Royal Holloway College / University of London and will be continued with 
funding from the Dutch National Research Board.

/The Journal of European Television History and Culture has the ambition 
to speak to both the academic and the professional community but will 
address a larger audience interested in television as a cultural 
phenomenon, /says *Sonja de Leeuw*, EUscreen's project coordinator and 
editor-in-chief of the journal.

/Broadcast historians, media studies scholars, audiovisual archivists, 
television professionals as well as the large group of enthusiastic fans 
of "old" television will have the opportunity to dive into the history 
and presence of European television by means of multi-media texts./


       Visit http://journal.euscreen.eu
       <http://journal.euscreen.eu/> to dive into Vol 1, No 1 (2012):
       Making Sense of Digital Sources
       <http://journal.euscreen.eu/index.php/jethc/issue/view/138/showToc>

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With kind regards (and possibly apologies for cross-posting),

*Erwin Verbruggen*
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