Back and forth in time:
Online news archives and presence
as transportation
Presence and the Past
 Presence (Lombard and Ditton, 1997) provides an
explanation of six modes of media engagement effects.
 Presence as transportation best explains the use of
Web 2.0 technologies such as streaming and sharing
video to interact with online news archives.
 “You are there” – taking the viewer back in time to the
event being reported.
 “It is here” – taking the content forward in time to
audiences not included in the content’s original purpose
as news.
A 50-Year Time Journey
 On Nov. 22-25, 2013,
CBSNews.com presented
an online video stream
of the network’s
breaking coverage and
aftermath of the
assassination of
President John F.
Kennedy in Dallas, Texas,
EXACTLY as viewers saw
it on Nov. 22-25, 1963.
The Mediated Moment
Stream of the Century
 British Pathé Ltd. is an
independent archive and the
descendant of one of the major
newsreel producers for theaters
and cinemas in the twentieth
century.
 In April 2014, the company
announced it was putting its
entire news archive – more than
85,000 videos – online as a
YouTube channel.
“We Are British Pathé”
The Future of the Past
Archive building – local and
global – continues
Future technology issues
ISOJ as collective memory?
Thank You for Attending ISOJ 2015
All copyrighted content in this presentation appears under the Fair Use
provision of U.S. Copyright Law and is intended solely for academic
research purposes.
Sources: CBSNews.com and dvp-potpourri.blogspot.com, British Pathé
Ltd. and British Pathé on YouTube
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=jd8_a
An8cdE)

Britt

  • 1.
    Back and forthin time: Online news archives and presence as transportation
  • 2.
    Presence and thePast  Presence (Lombard and Ditton, 1997) provides an explanation of six modes of media engagement effects.  Presence as transportation best explains the use of Web 2.0 technologies such as streaming and sharing video to interact with online news archives.  “You are there” – taking the viewer back in time to the event being reported.  “It is here” – taking the content forward in time to audiences not included in the content’s original purpose as news.
  • 3.
    A 50-Year TimeJourney  On Nov. 22-25, 2013, CBSNews.com presented an online video stream of the network’s breaking coverage and aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, EXACTLY as viewers saw it on Nov. 22-25, 1963.
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    Stream of theCentury  British Pathé Ltd. is an independent archive and the descendant of one of the major newsreel producers for theaters and cinemas in the twentieth century.  In April 2014, the company announced it was putting its entire news archive – more than 85,000 videos – online as a YouTube channel.
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    The Future ofthe Past Archive building – local and global – continues Future technology issues ISOJ as collective memory?
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    Thank You forAttending ISOJ 2015 All copyrighted content in this presentation appears under the Fair Use provision of U.S. Copyright Law and is intended solely for academic research purposes. Sources: CBSNews.com and dvp-potpourri.blogspot.com, British Pathé Ltd. and British Pathé on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=jd8_a An8cdE)