Television as an Archive of Memories? Cultural Memory and its Limits on the Finnish Public Service Broadcaster's Online Archive

Pajala, Mari

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“…The digital television archive is, of course, a construction, a history--producing entity in itself, just like any other archive. This has also been pointed out in many other recent studies (Hagedoorn, 2013;Noordegraaf, 2010;Pajala, 2010), but although they focus on the socio-cultural construction of knowledge within the archive, they do not address the pre--selection process as a central theme. Mari Pajala's (2010) research focuses on archives hosted in Sweden, Britain, Finland, Ireland, and Spain and the social construction of memory.…”

Section: Producing Digital Histories In a Decontextualized Environmenmentioning

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Doing media history in a digital age: change and continuity in historiographical practices

Jensen

2015

Media, Culture & Society

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This article explores the challenges which digital media brings into the field of media history. It starts out by examining prominent television historians' understanding of digital archives as revolutionizing media historiography. These claims are examined by holding them up against texts that discuss wider issues in historiographical practices related to television history and transnational comparisons. This investigation is paired with my own experiences and the many methodological challenges I have encountered using digitalized sources for my new research. I end up concluding that digital archives in themselves make little difference to scholarly media history. In light of the lacking impact, I argue that we should study the cultural economy of these archives to better understand the corporate, political, and economical structures that govern their content and which also set the course for online digital processes that are active history-producing entities themselves. Keywords: archive digital media media history social memory television transnational I took my first steps into the field of television history in 2006. This was the middle of a decade in which European broadcasting corporations began to share their audiovisual collections with the public via digital archives. For my first project, however, I never had the chance to use a digital archive as, in the end, nothing I wanted to see was digitalized. Returning to the field almost a decade later, things seem to be quite different: the archives of several European broadcasting corporations can be accessed online, and we have the digital, online pan-European television archive 'EUscreen'. Institutionally, it seems there has been a massive effort to make audiovisual material available to the wider public in digital archives. Parallel to this process, blogs, wikis, and other sites with user-generated content are increasingly places where material for research projects can be found. In the process of looking for data, the wealth of written online material is only outshined by the abundance of clips on YouTube and similar sites. With these new contributions to media history, it looks like digital media has come to play a significant historiographical role. However, what appears to be an age where digitalization is revolutionizing media history, and an Internet connection is all one needs to collect data, is also a time that brings media historians face to face with new ethical and methodological problems. Investigating these problems on the basis of personal experience, this piece explores a set of challenges new digital media brings into media history.

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Section: Producing Digital Histories In a Decontextualized Environmenmentioning

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Doing media history in a digital age: change and continuity in historiographical practices

Jensen

2015

Media, Culture & Society

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“…Educar e informar: La educación y la cultura son algunos de los principales valores de las RSP. Sin embargo, este tipo de programación no atrae a las emisoras privadas y comerciales por su participación de audiencia y escasos ingresos que no cubren los costos de producción y distribución (Huntsberger 2014;Pajala 2010;Shepperd 2014;Steemers y D'Arma 2012). Por lo tanto, los programas educativos y culturales se consideran una falla del mercado que las RSP deben suministrar y proporcionar, de la siguiente manera: "todavía es probable que haya brechas importantes en la oferta del mercado y, por lo tanto, sigue existiendo una justificación continua para una fuerte presencia de RSP en esta área" (D'Arma y Labio 2017, 2).…”

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“…Aunque la educación y la cultura son dos de las principales obligaciones de la RSP (Esser & Majbritt Jensen 2015;Grummel 2009;Pajala 2010;Shepperd 2014), se debe centrar la atención en la cultura artística e internacional. Estudios anteriores sugieren que los valores culturales y educativos se adaptan mejor a los intereses políticos y democráticos (Huntsberger 2014;Pajala 2010;Shepperd 2014; Steemers y D'Arma 2012); de hecho, en algunos estudios, el término "cultura" se refiere a la identidad nacional o local (Debrett 2009;Flew 2009;Spasovska e Imre 2015). Esto implica una falta de análisis cultural en un sentido amplio y general.…”

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¿Qué Hemos Aprendido sobre la Radiodifusión de Servicio Público en el Mundo? Una Revisión Sistemática de la Literatura y Sugerencias para Investigaciones Futuras

Lestón-Huerta

Goyanes

Mazza³

2021

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Este estudio ofrece una revisión de la literatura publicada sobre Radiodifusión de Servicio Público (RSP) entre los años 2009 y 2019. En total, se obtuvieron 232 artículos tras una búsqueda bibliográfica en cinco bases de datos (Scopus, Web of Science Core Collection, ProQuest, Academic Search Ultimate y Google Scholar), de los cuales setenta y ocho se consideraron relevantes, según los criterios del estudio. El artículo resume los objetos de estudio, los escenarios bajo análisis, los enfoques metodológicos y los principales patrones temáticos de las investigaciones existentes, proporcionando una evaluación crítica de los principales hallazgos y direcciones de las investigaciones. Sobre la base de este resumen temático, el estudio ofrece sugerencias sobre cómo avanzar e identificar algunos de los principales desafíos y limitaciones en esta área de investigación.

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“…This also influences the functions and practices of media archives. While traditional archives in an analogue media world used to focus on the conservation of media, online archives prioritize access for users (Pajala, 2010). However, cultural memory requires institutions of preservation, while communicative memory is non-institutional -and is not formalized or stabilized by material symbolization (Assmann, 2008).…”

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Memory of the Future? Digital Archives in Public Service Media

Gerard-Wenzel

2020

SPIR

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Archives by public service media (PSM) are often regarded as an ideal instrument for creating a collective 'cultural memory', which is essential in the individualized, differentiated and polarized societies of today. Technological innovations and digitization open up new possibilities in this regard, as data can be stored and made accessible more easily. In their daily work, however, PSM archives encounter various obstacles. How do PSM across Europe deal with the digitization of audiovisual archives and what exactly are the problems and challenges that accompany this process? To answer this question, the authors conducted problem-centered interviews with journalists, members of audience relations departments, legal departments, archivists and archive managers in selected European countries (Austria, Finland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom). In addition, selected examples of the publicly accessible archived content were analyzed and evaluated. The paper highlights tensions between personal rights and collective interests in the process of creating cultural memory: One of the main transformations in archiving that digitization has brought about is the way in which the material is publicly accessed and the proportion of the material that is publicly accessible. However, digitization has also caused significant risks, particularly with regard to the legal and ethical challenges it causes. The paper concludes with proposals for media policy.

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Television as an Archive of Memories? Cultural Memory and its Limits on the Finnish Public Service Broadcaster's Online Archive

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Doing media history in a digital age: change and continuity in historiographical practices

Doing media history in a digital age: change and continuity in historiographical practices

¿Qué Hemos Aprendido sobre la Radiodifusión de Servicio Público en el Mundo? Una Revisión Sistemática de la Literatura y Sugerencias para Investigaciones Futuras

Memory of the Future? Digital Archives in Public Service Media

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