[ecrea] New issue on “Convergent Television(s)” now available

In March, we published the call for papers for the sixth issue of 
EUscreen's open access journal VIEW, which explores European television 
history and culture. At the end of December, this latest issue found its 
way online and it is now fully and freely available at 
http://www.viewjournal.eu. All articles can be read on screen, where 
source materials can be found embedded in the article text, or saved as 
a PDF for reading offline.

This sixth issue is co-edited by Gabriele Balbi, Assistant Professor in 
Media Studies at the Università della Svizzera italiana, and Massimo 
Scaglioni, Assistant Professor of Media History at the Catholic 
University of Milan.

The history of media convergence, especially of convergent television, 
is a field that needed further investigation. Media convergence is often 
considered a taken-for-granted phenomenon, a kind of ‘irresistible’ 
force that has changed and is continuously changing media ecosystems. 
Furthermore, it seems to be mainly an American phenomenon because it has 
involved US politics and companies and because the most relevant 
reflections and publications on this topic come from American scholars.

This issue of VIEW tries to deal with this complex and polysemic concept 
from different points of view, adopting several theoretical and 
methodological frameworks. It attempts to counteract some of the 
aforementioned taken-for-granted ideas, analyzing TV convergence from a 
historical and long-term perspective, considering symmetrical case 
studies of success and failures, concentrating on the European dimension 
through the lens of transnational, comparative, and national contributions.

Table of Contents

    Editorial – Gabriele Balbi, Massimo Scaglioni

Discoveries

    ‘More Than a Television Channel’: Channel 4, FilmFour and a Failed 
Convergence Strategy – Hannah Andrews
    Public Service Television in a Multi-Platform Environment: A 
Comparative Study in Finland and Israel – Oranit Klein Shagrir, Heidi 
Keinonen
    Multiscreening and Social TV: The Changing Landscape of TV 
Consumption in Italy – Alberto Marinelli, Romana Andò
    Newspaper Video Content: Genres and Editorial Formats in Spain – 
Samuel Negredo
    Convergent Cultures: The Disappearance of Commissioned Audiovisual 
Productions in The Netherlands – Bas Agterberg

Explorations

    Wide-Screen Television and Home Movies: Towards an Archaeology of 
Television and Cinema Convergence Before Digitalisation – Tom James 
Longley Steward
    Convergent Television and ‘Audience Participation’: The Early Days 
of Interactive Digital Television in the UK – Vivi Theodoropoulou
    ARTE: French-German Experiments in Crossing the Borders. ‘One Media 
– Three Screens’ Convergence and Interactivity at its Full Potential? – 
Anna Wiehl
    ‘The Schneiderverse’: Nickelodeon, Convergent Television and 
Transmedia Storytelling – Helena Louise Dare-Edwards
    TV Goes Social: Italian Broadcasting Strategies and the Challenges 
of Convergence – Luca Barra, Massimo Scaglioni
    Digital Convergence and Content Regulation – Michael John Starks


VIEW is published by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in 
collaboration with Utrecht University, University of Luxembourg and 
Royal Holloway University of London. It is supported by the EUscreenXL 
project, the European Television History Network and the Netherlands 
Organization for Scientific Research.

Warm regards,

Erwin Verbruggen
Project lead K&I

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