[ecrea] VIEW Journal CFP on "Using Television’s Material Heritage"

VIEW Journal Call for Papers on "Using Television’s Material Heritage"

The medium of television is responsible for a huge accumulation of 
redundant objects: old TV sets and VTRs (and the tables to put them on), 
superseded production equipment and software, videotape and film that is 
no longer useable. This raises various questions, from practical to 
historiographical and methodological ones.

What are we to do with this accumulation of objects, many of which are 
not easily recycled?  How do we approach these objects as historical 
records? What tools and research practices do we need to go beyond the 
written cultures of television and address its non-discursive 
experiences? How do we articulate historical narratives that may emerge 
out of television’s non-discursive past? What histories do these objects 
tell, other than what’s already been documented and preserved in written 
and audiovisual archives?

It is not enough simply to document these objects. They are the silent 
witnesses to television’s history, and so can be made to speak again. 
This issue of VIEW will explore the many attempts that are taking place 
to preserve, reuse, engage with and study the objects from television’s 
material heritage. There are many issues involved here:

* museum practice in an age of shrinking budgets;
* the status of enthusiasts and their collections;
* the hidden ecological impact of TV industries;
* the ways that ‘redundant’ production equipment can often be used 
effectively well after its ‘use-by’ date by those with access to few 
resources;
* television objects as historical records;
* historiographical challenges posed by doing history with objects;
* different approaches to studying and writing about television objects;
* hands-on television research

VIEW’s online platform allows authors to engage with different ways of 
narrativising television’s past through the use of video and sound 
recordings as well as written accounts. Contributors are especially 
encouraged to experiment and engage with multi-media presentations of 
histories from objects and hands-on television research.

---Practical---

Contributions are encouraged from authors with different kinds of 
expertise and interests in media studies, television and media history.

Paper proposals (max. 500 words) are due on January 15, 2018. 
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 by mid-February 2018.

Articles (3 – 6,000 words) will be due on May 15, 2018. Longer articles 
are welcome, given that they comply with the journal’s author guidelines 
(http://viewjournal.eu/author-guidelines/).

For further information or questions about the issue, please contact its 
co-editors John Ellis ((john.ellis /at/ rhul.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(john.ellis /at/ rhul.ac.uk)>) and Dana Mustata ((d.mustata /at/ rug.nl) 
<mailto:(d.mustata /at/ rug.nl)>).

---About VIEW Journal---

See www.viewjournal.eu <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.Met vriendelijke groet,


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