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Will the Sun Rise? Japan’s Limited Role in the Global Format Business
No full textThis article illustrates the TV format business in Japan, which has a 60-year history of TV broadcasting and is the second biggest market in the world; however, it is still a small player in the business. The article examines the elements which prevent the international sale of more TV formats and suggests possible solutions. To meet the objectives, this study presents the following research: 1) a questionnaire to ask TV content buyers about the problems and strong points of Japanese TV formats, 2) semi-structured interviews with Japanese TV format sellers via email, 3) semi-structured interviews with TV format experts, and 4) archival research. As a result, this study found that the elements that prevent Japan from developing the TV format business include their unique presentation style in light entertainment shows, called ‘variety show style’, an inability to adjust this structure to the international market, and traditional Japanese-styled business practices. As possible solutions, this article suggests 1) introducing flying producers, 2) changing the business structure, 3) buying foreign TV formats, and 4) taking risks
Small Change – Big Difference: Tracking the Transmediality of Red Nose Day
No full textThis article analyses transmedia as a non-fictional social phenomenon, discussing the significance of participation, documentary, and community media. Specifically, the article conceptualises transmedia through the lens of charity politics. To do so, I use the Comic Relief charity campaign in the UK to trace how the social traditions, ways of life and sensibilities associated with Red Nose Day have evolved into emerging digital technologies to shape this charity campaign across the borders of multiple media platforms. Embracing how social specificity informs non-fictional transmedia, I position ‘infotainment’ as a key conceptual logic of nonfictional transmedia, showing how audiences follow the ‘ethos’ of Red Nose Day across multiple media
Het Journaal als Tegengif: Over de rol van het NTS-Journaal in de discussie over de betekenis van televisie voor Nederland
No full textOver de rol van het NTS-JOURNAAL in de discussieover de betekenis van televisie voor Nederlan
Democratic Television in The Netherlands: Two Curious Cases of Alternative Media as Counter-Technologies
No full textFor this article, the authors retrieved two curious cases of non-conformist TV from the archives of the Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision. Being made in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the two cases represent an alternative history of broadcast television in the Netherlands. Whereas Neon (1979–1980) aimed to establish a punk-inspired DIY video culture, Ed van der Elsken (1980, 1981) strived for an expressive amateur film culture. The authors propose to regard these cases as two different experiments on participation in and through media. By conceptualising amateur film and video as counter-technologies, the discursive expectations around their democratic potential can be explored further
SAVA at MediaEval 2015: Search and Anchoring in Video Archives
No full textThe Search and Anchoring in Video Archives (SAVA) task at MediaEval 2015 consists of two sub-tasks: (i) search for multimedia content within a video archive using multimodal queries referring to information contained in the audio and visual streams/content, and (ii) automatic selection of video segments within a list of videos that can be used as anchors for further hyperlinking within the archive. The task used a collection of roughly 2700 hours of the BBC broadcast TV material for the former sub-task, and about 70 files taken from this collection for the latter sub-task. The search subtask is based on an ad-hoc retrieval scenario, and is evaluated using a pooling procedure across participants submissions with crowdsourcing relevance assessment using Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk). The evaluation used metrics that are variations of MAP adjusted for this task. For the anchor selection sub-task overlapping regions of interest across participants submissions were assessed using MTurk workers, and mean reciprocal rank (MRR), precision and recall were calculated for evaluation
Practice-Oriented Evaluation of Unsupervised Labeling of Audiovisual Content in an Archive Production Environment
No full textIn this paper we report on an evaluation of unsupervised labeling of audiovisual content using collateral text data sources to investigate how such an approach can provide acceptable results given requirements with respect to archival quality, authority and service levels to external users. We conclude that with parameter settings that are optimized using a rigorous evaluation of precision and accuracy, the quality of automatic term-suggestion are sufficiently high. Having implemented the procedure in our production work-flow allows us to gradually develop the system further and also assess the effect of the transformation from manual to automatic from an end-user perspective. Additional future work will be on deploying different information sources including annotations based on multimodal video analysis such as speaker recognition and computer vision
Convenient Discovery of Archival Video Using Audiovisual Hyperlinking
No full textThis paper overviews ongoing work that aims to support end-users in conveniently exploring and exploiting large audiovisual archives by deploying multiple multimodal linking approaches. We present ongoing work on multimodal video hyperlinking, from a perspective of unconstrained link anchor identification and based on the identification of named entities, and recent attempts to implement and validate the concept of outside-in linking that relates current events to archive content. Although these concepts are not new, current work is revealing novel insights, more mature technology, development of benchmark evaluations and emergence of dedicated workshops which are opening many interesting research questions on various levels that require closer collaboration between research communities
Defining and Evaluating Video Hyperlinking for Navigating Multimedia Archives
No full textMultimedia hyperlinking is an emerging research topic in the context of digital libraries and (cultural heritage) archives. We have been studying the concept of video-to-video hyperlinking from a video search perspective in the context of the MediaEval evaluation benchmark for several years. Our task considers a use case of exploring large quantities of video content via an automatically created hyperlink structure at the media fragment level. In this paper we report on our findings, examine the features of the definition of video hyperlinking based on results, and discuss lessons learned with respect to evaluation of hyperlinking in real-life use scenarios
Digital Media Archaeology: Digging into the Digital Tool AVResearcherXL
No full textRecently, scholarly works started to turn their interest to the epistemological and methodological challenges that research with new digital tools and technologies do pose. In this article, we would like to contribute to this methodological discussion and to shed light on the role of digital tools for media studies, by taking the tool AVResearcherXL as case in point. AVResearcherXL is a new exploratory tool for media studies research, enabling users to search across, compare and visualize both the metadata of Dutch public television and radio programmes, and a selection of Dutch newspaper articles of the Dutch Royal Library. By tracing the word ‘television’ with the use of the tool, we provide a practical use case of doing media archaeology with digital tools for media archives. Our deconstruction shows the importance of a media archaeological approach to look into the materiality of digital technology as well as the relevance of studying the deep material structure of media technology. AVResearcherXL thus could be seen as an archaeological site in which the user or ‘archaeologist’ decides where to dig and which search lights to use. Using AVResearcherXL to do media (historical) research is not about finding the ‘right’ answers, but about contextualising results, and about finding new, sometimes unexpected, pathways and questions