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The Researcher as Storyteller: Using Digital Tools for Search and Storytelling with Audio-Visual Materials
No full textThis article offers a first exploratory critique of digital tools' socio-technical affordances in terms of support for narrative creation by media researchers. More specifically, we reflect on narrative creation processes of research, writing and story composition by Media Studies and Humanities scholars, as well as media professionals, working with crossmedia and audio-visual sources, and the pivotal ways in which digital tools inform these processes of search and storytelling. Our study proposes to add to the existing body of user-centred Digital Humanities research by presenting the insights of a cross-disciplinary user study. This involves, broadly speaking, researchers studying audio-visual materials in a co-creative design process, set to fine-tune and further develop a digital tool (technically based on linked open data) that supports audio-visual research through exploratory search. This article focuses on how 89 researchers – in both academic and professional research settings – use digital search technologies in their daily work practices to discover and explore (crossmedia, digital) audio-visual archival sources, especially when studying mediated and historical events. We focus on three user types, (1) Media Studies researchers; (2) Humanities researchers that use digitized audio-visual materials as a source for research, and (3) media professionals who need to retrieve materials for audio-visual text productions, including journalists, television/image researchers, documentalists, documentary filmmakers, digital storytellers, and media innovation experts. Our study primarily provides insights into the search, retrieval and narrative creation practices of these user groups. A user study such as this which combines different qualitative methods (focus groups with co-creative design sessions, research diaries, questionnaires), first, affords fine-grained insights. Second, it demonstrates the relevance of closely considering practices and mechanisms conditioning narrative creation, including self-reflexive approaches. Third and finally, it informs conclusions about the role of digital tools in meaning-creation processes when working with audio-visual sources, and where interaction is pivotal
Crossing the Theory-Practice Divide: A Multi-Perspective Reflection on a Practical Course for Film and Television Students
No full textScholars are increasingly expected to share their knowledge through different media besides the written publication but struggle to do so. How might they teach their students the skills to do so? This article argues that Practice as Research, developed by practitioners venturing into academia, provides a useful framework for shaping research outcomes into, for instance, video essays or interactive narratives. It is especially valuable for undergraduate students aiming to increase their knowledge and understanding of media through practical work, as it trains them in both practical and academic skills. This gives Practice as Research an added value in academic media studies curricula. This article is based on a case study of an advanced practical course for film and television students at Utrecht University and relies on course assignments, feedback conversations, and auto-ethnography. As this article was authored by the course lecturer and two students, it provides insight from multiple perspectives
Publication of Public Broadcasting Content in the Commons. A Practitioners' Statement
Get PDFIn this practitioners’ statement we look closely at the case of the Dutch public broadcaster VPRO and their experience with the open publication of newly produced public broadcasting content in relation to the series The Mind of the Universe. This paper discusses the various stages of open publication, from pre-production to the “afterlife” of the openly published materials. It concludes with recommendations for public broadcasters who want to publish under open licenses, and recommendations to the Wikimedia movement to profit more from openly licensed video
Towards a New Audiovisual Think Tank for Audiovisual Archivists and Cultural Heritage Professionals
Get PDFThe White Paper “Towards a New Audiovisual Think Tank for Audiovisual Archivists and Cultural Heritage Professionals” aims to facilitate stakeholders active in the preservation of audiovisual heritage to identify their strategic priorities over the coming decade. The paper also puts forward ten recommendations for collective action to address these priorities.
From the paper:
“Archiving, properly defined, is the establishment and then stewardship of the human record, and the remembering that it facilitates may be the most critically important imperative in modern human society.” The paper considers archiving to be a vitally proactive process and emphasises the productive publishing nature of archiving, stating, “It’s not preserving alone, but also capturing and creating the human record – especially when activist groups are involved – and taking forward-facing steps to fulfill these urgent and giant social mandates and imperatives to remember, for today and for tomorrow. . . . [A]rchives that recognize themselves as media producers, too, in their preservation and access roles [ . . . ] often have an easier time of articulating their mission publicly in the digital age.”
From exploring new partnerships and revenue models to experimenting with technology, supporting free and liberal licenses, and working more closely with creators, the ten recommendations paint a picture of the next decade of audiovisual archiving and the importance of collaboration and collective action
Images of Occupation in Dutch Film
No full textReview of: Wendy Burke. Images of Occupation in Dutch Film. Memory, Myth and the Cultural Legacy of War. Amsterdam University Press, 2017, 262 pp
Understanding the Cinemagoing Experience in Cultural Life: The Role of Oral History and the Formation of ‘Memories of Pleasure’
No full textThe new cinema history approach asserts the importance of investigating the historical reception of films. In the past two decades, empirical research on film audiences has significantly developed methodologies and questions related to film and memory. Some of these studies concentrate on a period of time in which cinema was an essential leisure activity for millions, before the arrival of television, multiplexes, videos and home cinema. Combining ethnographic audience study with cultural and cinema history has allowed new insights into the historical reception of films and confirmed the vital role of oral history for a better understanding of cinema audiences. Italian Cinema Audiences (2013–2016) – an AHRC-funded inter-institutional research project – sits precisely within this new body of research and responds to the urge of using a bottom-up approach to shed new light on the cultural history of a country in a particular historical moment. This article will make use of the findings of the Italian Cinema Audiences research project to explore the role of oral history in the process of understanding cinemagoing as a cultural practice and to better comprehend how this type of research can enrich our understanding of the cinemagoing experience in particular and film cultures more broadly. It will also reflect on the process of remembering what I will define as ‘memories of pleasure’
Cinema Beyond the City. Small-Town & Rural Film Culture in Europe
No full textReview of: Judith Thissen & Clemens Zimmermann, ed. Cinema Beyond the City. Small-Town & Rural Film Culture in Europe. Palgrave, 2016, 256 pp
Digitale greep op media in het historische moderniseringsdebat
No full textReview of: Jesper Verhoef. Opzien tegen modernisering. Denkbeelden over Amerika en Nederlandse identiteit in het publieke debat over media 1919-1989. Eburon, 2017, 260 pp
William Uricchio on the Colonization of the Data-Imaginary in the Public Service Sector
No full textInterview with William Uricchio (MIT) by Eef Masson and Karin van Es
Speech Analytics in Research Based on Qualitative Interviews: Experiences from KA3
No full textThe paper presents aims and results of the project KA³ (Kölner Zentrum Analyse und Archivierung von audio-visual-Daten), in which advanced speech technologies are developed and provided to enhance the process of indexing and analysing speech recordings from the oral history domain and the language sciences. Close cooperation between speech technology scientists and digital humanities researchers is an important aspect of the project making sure that the development of the technologies answers the needs of research based on qualitative audio-visual interviews. For practical research reasons, the project focuses on the audio aspect, although visual aspects are of course equally important for the analysis of audio-visual data. The Cologne Centre for Analysis and Archiving of audio-visual data will provide the technologies as a central service