FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2015 Vienna

1. Dr. Dana Mustata
University of Groningen
The Netherlands

2. Mission Statement
VIEW Journal of European Television History and
Culture is the first peer-reviewed, multi-media and
open access e-journal in the field of European
television history and culture. It offers an international
platform for outstanding academic research and
archival reflection on television as an important part of
our European cultural heritage. With its
interdisciplinary profile, the journal is open to many
disciplinary perspectives on European television –
including television history, media studies, media
sociology, cultural studies and television studies.

4. Aims and Scope
Building bridges between academics and archivists and
professionals
Bridging between television scholarship from across
Europe
Offering a multi-media platform for the critical
interpretation and creative re-use of digitized audiovisual
material
Stimulating new forms of online storytelling

5. Challenges
 Mediating a common professional language
between academics and media professionals

7. Challenges
 Going beyond national histories to produce European
histories of television

9. Challenges
 Dealing with the copyrights of sources

11. Challenges
 Integrating new narrative forms and presentation
formats that fit the professional skills and working
routines of both academics and media professionals

13. New Approaches to Doing Television History
Multi-media TV histories
Histories from below (using online audiovisual sources to elicit
new topics & themes of research)
Collaborative TV histories (including archivists and professionals
in the writing of TV histories)
New formats for presenting TV histories that better fit
professional working routines (e.g. video essays, etc.)

14. Multi-media platform for TV history
http://journal.euscreen.eu

18. Open Journal System

19. Collaborative Work
Audiovisual databases
• Euscreen (www.euscreen.eu) and EUscreenXL
Academic/archive networks
• European Television History Network
• European (Post)Socialist Television History Network
• Television Studies Commission
• FIAT/IFTA member archives
Other OJS partners
• PKP (http://pkp.sfu.ca)
Publishers:
• Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

21. Next Release :
VIEW Vol. 4, No. 8, December 2015
Archive Based Productions
Guest edited by Claude Mussou (INA) and Mette Charis Buchman (DR)

22. Warsaw Conference
Content in Motion: Curating Europe’s Audiovisual Heritage
December 3rd and 4th, Warsaw, Poland
at National Audiovisual Institute