[ecrea] CfP Deadline Approaching: European TV Memories

The/ Journal of European Television History and Culture 
/(http://journal.euscreen.eu 
<https://solismail.uu.nl/owa/14.2.318.2/scripts/premium/redir.aspx?C=lBShkbxYzUeUpQu392eY4tL07vFMXc8IdMaT2AajNpp-B04axgWUJ44hAVJTgBLK7-dw6_eer0Y.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fjournal.euscreen.eu%2f>) welcomes 
paper proposals for its third issue dedicated to 'European TV Memories' 
and guest-edited by Jérôme Bourdon (Tel Aviv University) and Berber 
Hagedoorn (Utrecht University).

Paper proposals (500 words) are due on *September 6th*,* 2012*. 
Submissions should be sent to the managing editor of the journal, dr. 
Dana Mustata ((journal /at/ euscreen.eu) 
<https://solismail.uu.nl/owa/14.2.318.2/scripts/premium/redir.aspx?C=lBShkbxYzUeUpQu392eY4tL07vFMXc8IdMaT2AajNpp-B04axgWUJ44hAVJTgBLK7-dw6_eer0Y.&URL=mailto%3ajournal%40euscreen.eu>). 
Articles (2-4,000 words) will be due on December 15^th , 2012. Please 
consult the journal's Author Guidelines at: 
http://journal.euscreen.eu/index.php/jethc/about/submissions#authorGuidelines 
<http://journal.euscreen.eu/index.php/jethc/about/submissions%23authorGuidelines> 


For further information or questions about this issue, please contact 
Jérôme Bourdon ((jerombourdon /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(jerombourdon /at/ gmail.com)>) 
and Berber Hagedoorn ((b.hagedoorn /at/ uu.nl) <mailto:(b.hagedoorn /at/ uu.nl)>).

The journal is the first peer-reviewed multi-media e-journal in the 
field of television studies. Offering an international platform for 
outstanding academic research on television, the journal has an 
interdisciplinary profile and acts both as a platform for critical 
reflection on the cultural, social and political role of television in 
Europe's past and present as well as a multi-media platform for the 
circulation and use of digitized audiovisual material.

The journal's main aim is to function as a showcase for a creative and 
innovative use of digitized television material in scholarly work, and 
to inspire a fruitful discussion between audiovisual heritage 
institutions (especially television archives) and a broader community of 
television experts and amateurs. In offering a unique technical 
infrastructure for a multi-media presentation of critical reflections on 
European television, the journal aims at stimulating innovative 
narrative forms of online storytelling, making use of the digitized 
audiovisual collections of television archives around Europe.

The theme of third issue of the journal, due for publication in spring 
2013, is /European TV Memories/. The editors welcome two kinds of 
contributions:

- s/cholarly articles/ (historical, sociological or anthropological with 
a European focus) of 4,000 words

- /discoveries/: journalistic essays (2,500 words) which include 
audiovisual sources as a central component and reflect on the practical 
challenges of doing television research in an archival or academic 
environment (e.g. case studies, new collections, news from archives, 
audio/video interviews).

*European TV Memories*

The phrase "European TV Memories" can be understood in many ways, of 
which we can suggest three:

   * Memories as /remembering/: memory as content actually remembered
     and shared (especially in contexts and events triggered by the
     researcher (focus groups, life stories).
   * Memories as /policy/: as the way the institutions of European
     television have tried to engineer, generate, support, and
     disseminate specific memories (at least, potentially, collective
     memories, considering the reach of the medium).
   * Memories as /text/: as they can be inferred from the close
     analysis of text as vectors of memory.

Although there is no strict correlation, different disciplines have 
generally focused on different understandings of memory. "Memory as 
text" is frequent among historians and philosophers, "memory as 
remembering" is analyzed by social psychologists and sociologists, while 
"memory as institution" is connected to a more political perspective 
(political sciences, but history as well).

We invite contributions across disciplines and across different 
conceptions of memories. Similarly, we would appreciate contributions, 
which study television memories beyond the genres usually emphasized in 
the study of memory (news and current affairs and historical 
programmes). TV series, advertisements, entertainment, can be considered 
as well.

Finally, these aspects cannot always be limited strictly to the medium 
of television, which interacts with other media, either "old" or "new". 
The memories of news events, for a given viewer/citizen, cannot be 
isolated from a news culture, which includes the press, once the 
newsreels, today online news. The memory of cinema is built, to a large 
extent, through television. This is why we will invite contributors to 
include other media, especially new and digital media, in their 
analysis, although the focus should be on television.

*Proposals are invited on (but not limited to) the following suggested 
topics:*

/Television as an institution of memory/

/- /the policies of memory in and on television

- event memories: public/private memories of televised media events

- commemorations and anniversaries

- reruns and repetition

- nostalgia programming and TV memorabilia

/Preservation and erasure/

- the impact and challenges of accessing TV history and memory in the 
digital age, considering a.o.: online access and storage, copyright 
issues, open source archiving, digital contextualization, user generated 
data

- the TV user as archivist

- the future of TV memory

/New cultures of remembering and forgetting (via) television/

- the impact and challenges of new and digital technologies

- new cultures of viewing and user participation, inside the household 
(wallpaper memories) and outside

- the gendering of television technologies and experiences

- transnational TV memories

/Researching television memories/

 - the methodological debate: archives, life-stories, political statements