Guest editors: Veronika Pehe, Sonja de Leeuw, Dana Mustata
Publication date: fall/winter 2022
This special issue of VIEW aims to shine a light on television satire in Europe during the period of state socialism and after. Satire has been studied as a vehicle for challenging political and religious power as well as established norms and values. Yet in the state socialist countries of the former Eastern Bloc, satire - including television satire - was also employed by the state apparatus to target ideological opponents. This issue looks into the complex and often subtle and contradictory ways in which satire has disputed the relations between television and power in this specific geopolitical region of Europe before and after the fall of the Iron Curtain.
We welcome contributions that look at satire through the lens of television programmes, production practices, audiences and their modes of spectatorship, programming and scheduling. Contributors are invited to submit articles or video essays dealing with the forms and functioning of television satire under state socialism, the development of new satirical formats and topics in postsocialist Central and Eastern Europe, as well as longue durée perspectives on satire before and after socialism.
Contributions on the following topics are welcome, while other relevant topics related to the satire and (post)socialist television will also be considered:
Deadline for abstracts (max. 500 words): 15 June 2021. Authors are encouraged to send in a short biography with their abstract.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent out to authors by 15 July 2021 at the latest.
Deadline for full articles (3000-6000 words) or video essays: 1 December, 2021.
Articles will be published in November/December 2022.
Proposals and inquiries about the issue can be sent to journal@euscreen.eu.
Posted on 13 Apr 2021
VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture is a peer-reviewed, multimedia and open access e-journal in the field of television studies. It offers an international platform for outstanding academic research and archival reflection on television as an important part of our European cultural heritage.
VIEW originated from the pan-European EUscreen network of audiovisual and broadcast archives and academic partners. It has been published by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, in collaboration with the EUscreen Network, twice a year since 2012.
The journal is open to many disciplinary perspectives on European television – including but not limited to television studies, television history, media studies, media sociology, and cultural studies. The publication is completely open access. Article processing charges are covered by its publisher and all readers access the journal’s articles for free. The journal’s reviewing system is based on the open source Open Journal Systems and hosting is provided by Ubiquity Press.
Education and Experience:
This position requires a master's degree (will consider bachelor's degree) in Television, Film, Media Studies, Science and Technology Studies or a closely related field of expertise.
This is an honorary position for which Sound and Vision offers a € 500 gross allowance per issue. The Assistant Journal Manager is appointed for a two-year term.
The appointed Assistant Journal Manager is expected to start asap and work on our forthcoming Open Issue (Volume 10, Issue 19, 2021) edited by Co-edited by Mari Pajala, John Ellis and Liam Wylie.
Please send a motivation letter and your resume to nvschaverbeke@beeldengeluid.nl.
If you have any questions about the position, please contact Georgia Aitaki, Managing Editor on g.aitaki@gmail.com or Nienke van Schaverbeke, Publisher on nvschaverbeke@beeldengeluid.nl
The deadline for applying is April 19th and the preferred start date is May/June 2021.
Posted on 08 Mar 2021
Issue 21, spring-summer 2022
Education has been one of the central pillars of public service television in Europe. Public service broadcasters were often mandated to provide educational programming. Broadcasters often developed innovative ways of reaching and engaging their education
audiences. Throughout television history, education has remained one of television’s key social functions. In the European context, transnational flows of programmes and institutional exchanges were a marked characteristic of this area of programming.
Now that television as we knew it has been challenged by newer emerging media and digital developments, now that that public service television in Europe is grappling with redefining its roles and position on the market and new technologies are constantly changing the production, distribution, reception and preservation of an old medium, it is worth revisiting television’s relations to and contributions to education. This is even more urgent in the recent context in which parts of education are moving online, and learning practices within the educational sector have been more and more guided by digital technologies and digital content.
In this special issue, we invite contributors to think along with us and ponder upon: how can we look back on television’s long-standing contributions to education in Europe? How can we ‘read’ these historical contributions through the transnational lens of European television? Last, but not least, how can we work towards a future where new television technologies are opened up for learning and education, and digitized historical content can be used both in education and in the formation of teachers and practitioners?
We welcome contributions about the following topics, but certainly not limited to:
Deadline for abstracts (max. 500 words): March 1, 2021 April 15, 2021
Deadline for full articles (3000-6000 words) or video essays: September 1, 2021
Contributions are encouraged from authors with different expertise and interests in media studies, television broadcasting, media literacy, archival studies, from researchers to television professionals, to educators, archivists and preservationists. We welcome contributions in the form of articles and video essays.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent out to authors by 10 May 2021. Articles will be published in June/July 2022.
Proposals and inquiries about the issue can be sent to journal@euscreen.eu.
Posted on 14 Dec 2020