Announcements

CfP VIEW Issue 22: Television Satire in (Post)Socialist Europe

Television Satire in (Post)Socialist Europe

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:

television and satire before and after the fall of the Iron Curtain;
formal and generic specificities of satire as a type of content revisited through the lens of (post)socialist television history and culture and through the lens of television as medium of communication;
parody, news-parody, religious and political satire and their limits in the (post)socialist context;
hybrid magazine formats (such as variety shows) that have accommodated satirical content;
boundaries of satire as a genre negotiated within the national contexts of different television cultures in (post)socialist Europe;
satire as a transnational phenomenon in European television;
(self)censorship and ‘underground’ satire in (post)socialist Europe;
television satire and taboos in the (post)socialist context;
mapping out ‘satirical spaces’ of television in (post)socialist Europe;
audiences and modes of spectatorship associated to satirical programmes;
production practices, programming and scheduling of television satire, including issues of censorship.

Submission details

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

Announcements

VIEW Journal seeks an Assistant Journal Manager

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.

Role Description

The Assistant Journal Manager works closely with the Managing Editor, the Editorial Board, the Publishing Support at Sound and Vision and each issue’s co-editors. The Assistant Journal Manager assists the Managing Editor and the Editorial Board to:

Ensure a smooth process from proposal stage to publication 
Support the review process to the shortest interval possible without compromising quality 
Ensure that published articles meet the standards of quality of the journal

Key Responsibilities:

The Assistant Journal Manager:

Drafts the planning of each issue in consultation with the Managing Editor, the Editorial Board and affiliated guest editors.  
Supports the Managing Editor in facilitating the peer review process in the journal management system in accordance with VIEW policies and processes defined by the Editorial Board. 
Offers guidance and support to reviewers and authors in preparing material for publication.  
Supports the Managing Editor in communicating with authors and reviewers. Undertakes stylistic checks and checks final PDF/HTML proofs before publication. 
Liaises with editorial production staff, and other staff and organizations  contributing to the journal for timely and accurate publication.
Writes short texts for social media to promote newly published articles

Qualifications

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.

Skills and Other Requirements:

Excellent organisational and planning skills. Experience in publication planning, and scheduling is preferred. 
Great writing and communication skills. The ability to write well and provide editorial feedback to authors/contributors and offer technical support to reviewers. 
Keen interest in getting to know the ins and outs of the publications process of an open access academic journal.  
Affinity with multimedia content and a keen interest in innovative forms of writing for the web.  
Subject matter knowledge of television and media studies.  
Knowledge of online peer review systems, such as Open Journal Systems, is preferred.  
Proficiency in Office suites, such as Microsoft Office, Google Docs is required.

Remuneration

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

Announcements

Call for papers: Television and Education

VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture

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:

Early educational programmes, including (transnational) studies of tele-school programmes in Europe
The Europeanness of television’s historical contributions to the educational sector
Current challenges and opportunities opened up by public television’s educational remit
The roles of television technologies – including technologies of preservation and dissemination - in education.
New learning practices fostered by the educational use of television heritage
The roles of television heritage in fostering inclusive learning and teaching practices
The didactics of using television content and archival material in the classroom
Television heritage and online education
Pedagogies of teaching television histories in the digital age
The roles of television heritage in fostering inclusive learning and teaching practices

Submission details

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