[ecrea] VIEW Journal Call for Papers on "Audiovisual Data in Digital Humanities"

Call for Paper for VIEW Journal of European Television History & Culture

Special Issue on Audiovisual Data in Digital Humanities

Considering the relevance of audiovisual material as perhaps the biggest 
wave of data to come in the near future (Smith, 2013, IBM prospective 
study) its relatively modest position within the realm of Digital 
Humanities conferences is remarkable. The objective of this special 
issue for VIEW is to present current research in that field on a variety 
of epistemological, historiographical and technological issues that are 
specific for digital methods applied to audiovisual data. We strive to 
cover a great range of media and data types and of applications 
representing the various stages of the research process.

The following key topics / problems / questions are of special interest:

1. Do computational approaches to sound and (moving) images extend 
or/and change our conceptual and epistemological understanding of these 
media? What are the leading machine learning approaches to the study of 
audio and visual culture and particularly time-based media? How do these 
approaches, models, and methods of learning relate to acquiring and 
producing knowledge by the conventional means of reading and analyzing 
text? Do we understand the 20th century differently through listening to 
sounds and voices and viewing images than through reading texts? How 
does massive digitization and online access relate to the concept of 
authenticity and provenance?

2. What tools in the sequence of the research process - search, 
annotation, vocabulary, analysis, presentation - are best suited to work 
with audio-visual data? The ways in which we structure and process 
information are primarily determined by the convention of attributing 
meaning to visual content through text. Does searching audio-visual 
archives, annotating photos or film clips, analyzing a corpus of city 
sounds, or presenting research output through a virtual exhibition, 
require special dedicated tools? What is the diversity in requirements 
within the communities of humanities scholars? How can, for example, 
existing commercial tools or software be repurposed for scholarly use?

3. What are the main hurdles for the further expansion of AV in DH? 
Compared to text, audiovisual data as carriers of knowledge are a 
relatively young phenomenon. Consequently the question of ‘ownership’ 
and the commercial value of many audiovisual sources result in 
considerable constraints for use due to issues of copyright. A 
constraint of a completely different order, is the intensive investment 
in time needed when listening to or watching an audiovisual corpus, 
compared to reading a text. Does the law or do technologies for speech 
and image retrieval offer solutions to overcome these obstacles?

--Practicals--
* Contributions are encouraged from authors with different kinds of 
expertise and interests in media studies, digital humanities, television 
and media history.
* Paper proposals (max. 500 words) are due on October 2nd, 2017.
* Submissions should be sent to the managing editor of the journal, Dana 
Mustata ((journal /at/ euscreen.eu) <mailto:(journal /at/ euscreen.eu)>).
* A notice of acceptance will be sent to authors in the 1st week of 
November 2017.
* Articles (3 – 6,000 words) will be due on 15th of February 2018. 
Longer articles are welcome, given that they comply with the journal’s 
author guidelines.
* For further information or questions about the issue, please contact 
the co-editors: Mark Williams (Associate Professor Film and Media 
Studies, Dartmouth College U.S. ((Mark.J.Williams /at/ dartmouth.edu) 
<mailto:(Mark.J.Williams /at/ dartmouth.edu)>)), Pelle Snickars (Prof. of Media 
Studies Umea Univesity, Sweden ((pelle.snickars /at/ umu.se) 
<mailto:(pelle.snickars /at/ umu.se)>)) or Andreas Fickers (Luxembourg Centre 
for Contemporary and Digital History ((andreas.fickers /at/ uni.lu) 
<mailto:(andreas.fickers /at/ uni.lu)>)).

--About VIEW Journal--
See http://www.viewjournal.eu/ for the current and back issues. VIEW is 
supported by the EUscreen Network and published by the Netherlands 
Institute for Sound and Vision in collaboration with Utrecht University, 
Royal Holloway University of London, and University of Luxembourg. VIEW 
is proud to be an open access journal. All articles are indexed through 
the Directory of Open Access Journals, the EBSCO Film and Television 
Index, Paperity and NARCIS.
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