Presentation by Andreas Fickers (UM) Erwin Verbruggen (NISV) at the Final EUscreen Conference in Budapest

1. From JETHC to VIEW
First steps of
Journal of European Television History
& Culture

2. Aims and Objectives
• Mission statement:
– Open Access
– Multi-media
– Interdisciplinary
– Past & Present
– Scholarly & Professional
– Transnational & European

3. Structure & Organisation
• 2 issues / year with a thematic focus:
– Vol.1: Making sense of digitized sources
– Vol.2: Europe on and behind the screen
– Vol.3: European television memories
• Invited guest-editors
• Dual structure:
– Scholarly articles
– Discovery articles
• Additional features (future):
– Interviews
– Video essays
– Reflexive reports

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5. Vol.2: Europe on and behind
• Scholarly Articles
the screen
• Transnational broadcasting and East-West relations: OIRT, EBU and Gagarin‟s return to Moscow /
Lars Lundgren
• Transnational Interdependencies Between BBC and WDR 1961-1985: An Actor-Centred
Perspective / Christian Potschka
• Reading Between The Lines. A Transnational History of the Franco-British “Entente Cordiale” in
Post War Television / Andreas Fickers, Andy O’Dwyer
• From Teleclubs and European Television History Beyond the Screen / Ira Wagman
• European identity and media imperialism to public diplomacy: the changing rationale behind
Euronews / Eva Polonska, Patrick Kimunguyi
• Hello, Lenin? Soviet Nostalgia on Post-Soviet Television / Kateryna Khinchulova
• „Comunicar Europa/Communicating Europe. Spain and television co-productions‟ Concepcion
Cascajosa / Manuel Palacio
• Discovery Articles
• Mapping Europe: Images of Europe in the Eurovision Song Contest / Mari Pajala
• Spain was not a living celebration. TVE and Eurovision Song Content during the years of France‟s
Dictator / Juan Francisco Gutiérrez
• The Golden Stag Music Festival / Alexandru Matei
• Eurovision Song Contest goes social media / Pauliina Tuomi
• Zen and the Art of Adaptation / Jeremy Strong
• Poland's Return to Europe - Polish Terrestrial Broadcasters and TV Fiction / Sylwia Szostak

6. Structure & Organisation
• 2 issues / year with a thematic focus:
– Vol.1: Making sense of digitized sources
– Vol.2: Europe on and behind the screen
– Vol.3: European television memories
• Invited guest-editors
• Dual structure:
– Scholarly articles
– Discovery articles
• Additional features (future):
– Interviews
– Video essays
– Reflexive reports

7. PAST AND FUTURE
CHALLENGES

8. OPEN ACCESS POLICY
• Open Society Foundation (OSF),
December 1-2, 2001: Budapest Open
Access Initiative
• Topical: 2012 publisher‟s boycott
• 8,098. The number of peer-reviewed OA
journals listed in the Directory of Open
Access Journals (DOAJ) (September 1,
2012)
• Business model?

9. OPEN JOURNAL SYSTEMS
PKP develops open source software
for the management, publishing, and
indexing of journals and conferences.
Open Journal Systems and Open
Conference Systems increase access
to knowledge, improve management,
and reduce publishing costs. Open
Harvester systems allows the creation
of centralized search services on
metadata from Open Archives
Initiative-compliant databases.

10. CMS

11. PEER REVIEW
Peer Review
Illustration by James
Yang. See more of
his work at
http://www.jamesya
ng.com/.

12. A/V EMBEDDING?
Original wireframes
by Kati Hyypä &
Daniel Ockeloen

13. EXISTING WORK

14. EXISTING WORK

15. POSSIBLE OUTCOMES

16. Future Plans & Development
• Four fields:
– New design: from JETHC to VIEW
• Attractive design of online and offline content
• New Logo

17. DESIGN

18. DESIGN

19. PROPOSED LAY-OUT

20. PROPOSED PLAY-OUT

21. Future Plans & Development
• Four fields:
– New design: from JETHC to VIEW
• Attractive design of online and offline content
• New Logo
– Multi-media environment and functionalities
• Development of plug-in for audiovisual sources
– Collaboration with OJS / other partners
• Stronger audio/visual appeal
• Editing tool for audiovisual content (video essay)
– Finding a professional publisher
• Negotiations with Routledge / Taylor & Francis
– Promoting new approaches to European TV history &
culture

22. New Approaches
• Strengthen ties with archival world
– Develop formats the better fit their working /
thinking routines (video essays; reflexive
reports; project descriptions)
• New histories from “below”
– Availability of new sources should allow for
new approaches / stories
– Using EUscreen as a pit for new stories

23. New Questions & Topics
• VIEW new things:
– History of commercial / private / CC television
– Viewer memories and tv memorabilia
– Hidden professions of tv business
– Impact of new technologies on programming
– Intermedial relationships between TV and press, radio,
film, video, internet, mobile phones…
– Transnational circulation and appropriation of programmes
and formats
– “Provincialising Europe”: relationships with Africa, Asia,
Southern America
– Sound of television & importance of language

24. Final Word
European projects (Birth of TV, Video
Active, EUscreen, EUscreeenXL) have
explored some new and fascinating paths
in the jungle of European television history
and culture, but we are far from being at
the edge of this “topographic expedition”.