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Reporting on the Rituals of Islam: Changing Televisual Narratives on Integration and National Belonging of Muslim Immigrants
No full textThis article delves into the history of Dutch television representation of Muslim immigrants and traces the coverage of Islamic rituals over five decades. Since the arrival of Turkish and Moroccan ‘guest workers’ in the 1960s, these rituals have sparked discussions about the place of Islam in Dutch society. Ever since, Dutch television has exhibited a fascination for Islamic rituals, in particular for the two major Islamic celebrations – the Festival of Breaking the Fast and the Festival of the Sacrifice and the (related) rituals of Ramadan and halal slaughter. Studying the coverage of Islamic rituals over time reveals the evolving televisual narratives on national belonging and integration of Muslim immigrants. Finally, the article argues that in this historical process of representation, television has shaped two competing stereotypes: the well-integrated, domesticated Muslim deserving of ‘our’ hospitality and the maladjusted, fearsome Muslim undeserving of it
Broadcasting from Below: Television Archives, Microhistory, and the Many Voices of 1990s Sicily
No full textThe digitisation of television archives has transformed our ability to revisit and reinterpret recent histories, particularly through materials that capture the texture and complexity of local life. Within these archives lie not just recordings, but layers of voices, perspectives, and lived experiences that challenge dominant historical narratives. This article will explores these multilayered histories through an examination of Un mito antropologico televisivo (Maria Helene Bertino, Dario Castelli, and Alessandro Gagliardo, 2011), an Italian documentary that creatively reactivates the archives of an independent Sicilian television station operating during a pivotal period of Italian history. During the mid-1990s, as mainstream Italian media increasingly turned toward commercial entertainment under Berlusconi’s influence, the cameras of a local network captured a radically different reality: the intense social and political dynamics of a community grappling with anti-Mafia movements, local governance disputes, and grassroots activism.
Drawing on Carlo Ginzburg’s notion of microhistory, which reveals broader historical patterns through intensive small-scale analysis, this article will examine how local television archives can serve as repositories of multiple, often conflicting voices and perspectives. These archives present complex interactions between journalists, activists, local officials, and community members, each contributing to a polyphonic narrative of Sicilian life during this turbulent period. Through close analysis of the documentary’s innovative editing strategies and careful attention to the original context of the archival material, this research will explore how creative archival reactivation can illuminate the multivalent nature of historical experience.
Ultimately, this article raises crucial questions about how we approach and reinterpret such historical materials: How can creative archival practices make visible the multiple perspectives and power relations embedded within these archives? What can local television recordings reveal about the interplay between media workers, their communities, and the social structures they documented? How might creative engagement with these materials help us understand the complex dynamics of a specific time and place while revealing broader patterns of social and political life? By examining these questions through the lens of microhistory, this article analyses the potential of local television archives in revealing the plurality of historical experience
Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom
No full textBoekrecensie van: Johnny Walker, Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978-92 (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), 253 pp., ISBN 978-1-4744-5448-3
Re/Presenting Europe and Europeans in Twentieth Century Media
No full textThis special issue of TMG - Journal for Media History examines how historical practices of racialisation structure representations of Europe, Europeanness and belonging in the domain of popular culture. Mainstream media, by which we mean state-sponsored and dominant commercial and publicly accessible radio and television, and widespread print media genres such as newspapers and magazines, have produced and circulated dominant representations of who is European and has a rightful place in Europe. Although the domain of popular culture promises egalitarian and democratic representation, in practice, mainstream coverage of major sporting fixtures and popular music has historically offered simplistic or stereotyping portrayals of the complex and differentiated “othered” groups that contribute to European culture
C2PA n’est pas une Pipe
Full text linkIn opdracht van NPO Innovatie (NPO), Media Campus NL en Beeld & Geluid is onderzocht of de C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) specificatie geschikt is om de doelstelling van de NPO in dit onderzoek te ondersteunen: “Desinformatie te bestrijden door de authenticiteit van berichtgeving te borgen middels digitale certificaten.“ Dit onderzoek bouwt voort op het eerdere Proof of Provenance project (2022) en houdt rekening met de snelle ontwikkelingen rond C2PA en de oproep van de EBU om standaarden voor herkomstverificatie te ondersteunen
How to Activate the Potential of Imaginary Networks
No full textI explore how imaginary networks provide us with meaningful models for alternative future networks outside of or beyond the internet. This essay mostly looks first at how media archaeology's interest in uncovering media from the past to reimagine media in the future could lay the initial groundwork for seeing imaginary networks as alternatives to the contemporary internet. However, I find that media archaeology has a limited ability to understand imaginary networks; instead, complimenting it with Black radical thinkers such as Franz Fanon and Marxist thinkers such as Franco 'Bifo' Berardi gives us tools to imagine networks beyond the reach of global financial capitalism
Salvador Dalí's Liquid and Gaseous Television: a Mystical and Wireless Dream
No full textHow can you reach the sky? For Salvador Dalí, just turn on your TV. That is, the Liquid and Gaseous Television: one of his inventions (1975) turning TV into a vehicle for cosmic voyages that allow man to communicate with the universe. Perhaps even with God. This device needs no wires. In it, communicative and transcendental horizons converge, updating the surrealist techniques of activating the unconscious into a new formula aimed at overturning coercive television narcosis into a liberating mystical-cognitive three-dimensional ecstasy. Dalí's wireless TV is a mechanism of mediation between reality and spirituality, discontinuity and reconfiguration, man and the sky. A dream or a model that embodies the future of television
The 'Open Empire': Communication Satellite Fictions in Three Country Happening (1966)
No full textThis paper examines Three Country Happening (1966), a collaboration between artists Marta Minujín in Buenos Aires, Allan Kaprow in New York, and Wolf Vostell in West Berlin. Each of the artists' contributions was supposedly coordinated using a state-of-the-art communication satellite. The artists did not end up connecting to the satellite, though they led their audience to believe that they had. This paper first links this project to the development of the transnational satellite system itself, locating the total work's constitutive glitch at the limits of the desire for American communication satellites to foment world peace during the Cold War. Then, it examines the differences between each artist's local situation, contrasting the foundational ambitions of the satellite program in the United States to the realities of long-range transmission in Germany and Argentina. In doing so, it rereads the work's supposed failure as a critical counternarrative against the belief that sociopolitical problems have technological solutions
Enhancing participatory approaches in Cultural Heritage Organisations
Full text linkThis poster summarises the RECHARGE policy recommendations that propose a framework to strengthen cultural heritage organisations across Europe. Grounded in nine living labs and collaborative research, they highlight participatory business models, shared responsibility, and co-governance. The recommendations call for structural support to embed participation as a long-term practice in the sector
Enhancing participatory approaches in Cultural Heritage Organisations for a more sustainable and inclusive sector
Full text linkThe RECHARGE policy recommendations propose a framework to strengthen cultural heritage organisations across Europe. Grounded in nine living labs and collaborative research, they highlight participatory business models, shared responsibility, and co-governance. The recommendations call for structural support to embed participation as a long-term practice in the sector