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De muziekfabriek. TMF en de Nederlandse popcultuur
No full textBook review of: Jaap Kooijman, De muziekfabriek. TMF en de Nederlandse popcultuur (Mazirel Pers, 2024), 183 pp., ISBN: 978 9464 560 527
Data Journalism, Digital Verification and AI. The Case for Newsroom Convergence
No full textThis article discusses the opportunities and challenges of implementing data journalism, digital verification and AI in the centre of the newsroom. Data journalism, digital verification and fact-checking continue to be seen like jobs for specialists. As has AI, they have all entered newsrooms in various forms over the past two decades. This article comes out of preparatory work for an online course on data literacy for journalism, communication and creative industries students called MediaNumeric. The course focuses on search and exploration of data, digital skills, and tracking and debunking misinformation. As part of this special issue, this article wants to offer a sense of what is at stake in data entering newsrooms, and editorial and media production offices
Friend and Foe. An Analysis of Expert Advice on Educating for Data Literacy in Journalism and the Creative Industries
No full textAnalysis of practical advice in regard of developing a data literacy course for students in higher education and for early-career professionals in interviews with 56 experts in data analysis, offered an unexpected shared story among the experts around the perception, affect and power of data. By attending to what data are felt to be and do to you unintentionally, the analysis delivered a new story of how to teach for data literacy. Rather than (only) focus on formal skills, it points to how building a relationship with data may help more students and young professionals become curious, critical and engaged while recognizing the strengths and the fickleness of data sets
Screen Memories: The Audiovisual Heritage of Turkish Migrant Women in the Netherlands Across Political Film, Video, and Television
No full textThis article explores the counterhegemonic uses of audiovisual media —such as film, video, and television— by migrant women workers, specifically focusing on the media tactics of self-representation used in the intersectional feminist activism of migrant women workers from the Turkish Republic in the Netherlands from 1975 to 1985. Through comprehensive archival research, it aims to historically contextualise and critically evaluate the archival conditions of this marginalised audiovisual heritage. Drawing on archival presences of extant film and television material as well as archival absences, such as lost and abandoned projects, the paper proposes to reconfigure the ‘audiovisual heritage’ of underrepresented communities at the intersection of race, gender, and class, whose archival presences are contingent, arbitrary, and fragmented. To address the specific condition of archival paucity concerning the audiovisual heritage of migrant women workers, the paper concludes with the new perspectives opened by a feminist media historiography of open questions, critical fabulation, and counterfactual speculation
Data Perception and Information Disorder in the Italian Context During the Pandemic
No full textThis paper aims to investigate how Italian audiences received and perceived data-driven television news during the Covid-19 pandemic. During this time, the logic and practices of creating and consuming television journalism were disrupted by the pandemic emergency. The paper presents the results of research carried out as part of a wider project titled “The Social Effects of Fake News” which was conducted from 2018 to 2022 within the CoRiS department of Sapienza University of Rome. The research project was reshaped in 2020, to understand the effects of what has been called “information disorder” in the areas of health, medicine, and science at a time when, together with the pandemic, an “infodemic” also emerged.1 We use Wardle and Derakhshan’s notion of “information disorder” as presented in their Council of Europe report.2
The results of the survey research we conducted show a surprising paradox. We found an interesting pattern of receiving and using information content based on data, in which users trust those who produce and validate certain data and at the same time do not believe that same data. This pattern of use indicates a particular approach to dealing with news among the Italian public. We have labelled it “know-it-all.” This article aims to deepen the understanding of this paradox of trust in experts but not in the data they deliver and how journalistic practice should deal with this conundrum
Instant TV. The Forgotten History of Video Tape Recording (and the Coverage of the Eichmann Trial)
No full textThis article adopts a media archaeological approach to the Eichmann trial (1961) to explore the technology and media constellations that enabled its global television coverage. Drawing on extensive archival research, it offers insights into the technological setup and institutional cooperation crucial for the broadcast. In this context, video tape recording played a pivotal role, facilitating instantaneous reporting from around the world. Informed by actor-network theory, the article highlights the interplay of different (non)human actors who were interested and enrolled in a short-lived actor-network that soon became obsolete with the advent of communication satellites. Through recounting the story of the trial coverage, it not only recalls the forgotten use of a technology but also sheds light on emerging television formats and infrastructures that persisted far beyond the brief prominence of Instant TV
Inward Outward, Witnessing/Care & the Archive
No full textOn March 16–17, 2023, the third edition of the Inward Outward symposium took place in Amsterdam. Initiated between the KITLV and Sound & Vision, with special support from the RCMC and in collaboration with Framer Framed, Inward Outward brought together archival practitioners, artists, academics, and researchers to explore the status of moving image and sound archives as they intertwine with questions of coloniality, identity and race, focusing specifically around the theme of Witnessing/Care & the Archive.
Conceived as a way to further discussions that surfaced during the symposium, Witnessing/Care & the Archive: A Publication of the 2023 Inward Outward Symposium collects different contributions from the speakers of the event.
The terms witnessing and care have gained a fair amount of currency in recent times, as public institutions scramble to deal—or give the appearance that they are dealing—with calls to “decolonize” archives, to “redistribute” looted memories, to “redress” irreparable wrongs. As a consequence, while there have been some significant propositions to grapple with these words, there has also been much hollow noise. So what could one more of these conversations really do?
Rather than adding to the din, and resisting trends that propose “best practices” or formulaic solutions to complex issues, the presentations at Inward Outward stressed the persistence of difficulty. Our conversations offered no suggestions that a panacea might be found, no indication of a new pro-forma method for finding novel ways, yet again, to make visible what so many in Europe do not wish to see. Rather, we interrogated what was—and continues to be—related to the protracted period of modernity; this post-enlightenment moment in which extractivism and the “thingification” of peoples, animals, plants and vital elements is the norm.
Across this publication 9 individual texts unfold, critically engaging with conversations on witnessing, care and repair in the archive.</p
The media sector on its AI journey
Full text linkThis report explores the complexities and potential of AI integration in the media sector, drawing on insights from leading experts and practitioners.
It dives into four aspects that inform organisational engagement with AI:
The media sector in the AI development value chain – we reflect on
the critical role that media organisations can play as co-developers of
AI solutions.
Approaching AI integration: five organisational paradoxes –
discussions with experts reveal paradoxes facing media organisations,
such as balancing rapid technological experimentation with slower
organisational adoption and the uneven distribution of AI knowledge
across teams.
Managing organisational paradoxes: practitioner insights to
support AI integration – media experts share good practices and
lessons learnt from AI integration that can lead to more effective
evaluation strategies, long-term R&D partnerships and successful
knowledge mobilisation across the organisation
Towards an organisational AI strategy – we propose eight key
elements that could serve as a foundation for a comprehensive AI
strategy aligned with organisational values and principles.</p
'De-Google-ing' our Students: A User Approach to Understanding Archival Media Discovery in the Classroom
No full textThis article presents insights about how practices of record-keeping are understood by users of algorithmically curated audiovisual archives in a classroom setting. Our user study looks at the intersection of curated access to digital archives and actual use of these archives, between algorithmic practices and intermediated search. We discuss a pedagogical approach that facilitates learning about the ways in which data-orientated reconfigurations of archival content afford serendipitous information encountering at the data (content) level and the intermediated search (interface) level. This approach requires a ‘de-Google-ing’ (or de-Googling) of student search practices and a move from user-centred to artifact-orientated search regimes
Performing Plurality: Meet the Alters Vlogs on YouTube as Breeding Grounds for Epistemic Justice
No full textSocial media platforms have provided people with a psychiatric label the opportunity to build communities and share their stories without relying on the mediation of therapists, publishers, or broadcasters. Among them are people who identify not as one whole self, but as a system of plural personalities, often labeled as dissociative identity disorder (DID). People with plural identities started sharing videos on YouTube as a means to convey their experiences and fight stigma. In 2009, this gave rise to a distinct sub-genre of vlogs created by people with plural identities and DID: the ‘Meet the Alters’ video, where various personalities introduce themselves to the audience. This paper traces the fifteen-year evolution of these videos in order to show how the makers of the Meet the Alters videos use YouTube’s affordances and the conventions of the vlog genre to navigate a lack of hermeneutic resources outside of psychiatric discourse and understanding, allowing them to communicate their experiences in a relatable way to a general audience. Through a close reading of the staging and performance of plurality in thirteen Meet the Alters videos, posted between 2009 and April 2024, the paper reveals key developments and particularities of this genre. The analysis highlights how plural YouTubers create their own hermeneutic resources to present their potentially unfamiliar or unruly experiences in an understandable manner to their viewers. In conversation with emerging and growing plural communities, these hermeneutic resources have been continually supplemented and refined. After fifteen years, this has resulted in a rich identity-centered discourse that enables the performance and communication of plural experiences. We argue that YouTube’s specific affordances and the generic conventions of the vlog have been crucial in the emergence and development of non-stigmatising, non-psychiatric hermeneutic resources for expressing plural experiences