University of Groningen, NL
About Berber
Berber Hagedoorn is Assistant Professor Media Studies at the University of Groningen. Hagedoorn specialises in Media and Cultural Studies, studying the representation of past events, participatory media, multi-platform storytelling, cultural memory and the re-use of archival footage, particularly for television, film and digital media. She is Vice-Chair of the
ECREA Television Studies thematic section, organizing cooperation for European research and education into television's history and future as a multi-platform storytelling practice. Her Digital Humanities experience in (inter-)national projects on digitalized audiovisual heritage and cultural memory includes the European Best Practice Networks
VideoActive and
EUscreen, her 2016-17 Research Fellowship at
the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum, studying audiovisual representations of historical news events in the context of
DIVE+, which builds an innovative approach for the exploration of digital heritage via linked online collections, and the CLARIAH Research Pilot
Narrativizing Disruption (with dr. Sabrina Sauer), which studies how users of the media archive and audiovisual sources use and create narratives to understand media events, and how exploratory search supports such narrative creation or generation (
https://berberhagedoorn.wordpress.com). Hagedoorn has published in amongst others Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Studies in Documentary Film, Rundfunk und Geschichte, Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis and Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.