Looking beyond the content of Michele Hilmes’s work to its structure and form, Shawn VanCour discusses the larger goals and techniques of Hilmesian historiography.
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Tags: consumer culture, counterpublics, Discourse, feminism, historical closeup, historiography, ideology, Jacques Derrida, media history, Michel Foucault, Michele Hilmes, public sphere, radio, radio voices, Roland Marchand, Siegfried Kracauer, soap opera, spectrology
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In the third post in our "Digital Tools" series, Elana Levine discusses how she manages audio-visual sources for her extensive research project on the history of U.S. daytime television soap opera.
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Tags: academic research, Another World, archival preservation, Dark Shadows, digital tools, fandom, Handbrake, historiography, iSkysoft iTube Studio, media history, Passions, Port Charles, RetroTV, Ryan's Hope, Sci-Fi, soap opera, SOAPnet, VHS
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In the second post in our "Digital Tools" series, Elana Levine discusses her process for converting historical research materials into chapter outlines using Scrivener.
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Tags: data management, DEVONthink, historiography, media history, methodology, research, Scapple, Scrivener, software, word processing
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Michele Hilmes’ legacy for radio and sound studies, broadcasting history, and cultural studies is clearly profound and prodigious, but her influence extends further, as well: this quintessential cultural historian is also a profound new media scholar.
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Tags: cultural history, Discourse, historiography, media history, media industries, media studies, Michele Hilmes, new media, radio
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Josh Shepperd provides Part 1 of 2 to his final entry in the "On (the) Wisconsin Discourses" series with an examination of Michele Hilmes' contributions to discursive analysis.
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Tags: Birmingham School, communication arts, consumer activism, cultural theory, Discourse, discursive analysis, Douglas Gomery, drift literacy, Habermas, hegemony, historiography, John Fiske, Julie D'Acci, madison mafia, Media and Cultural Studies, media literacy, media studies, Michele Hilmes, Network Nations, public, public sphere, publics, radio voices, Richard Hoggart, sound studies, Stuart Hall, transnational
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In the first post in our "Honoring Hilmes" series, Bill Kirkpatrick argues that the quality of Michele Hilmes’ scholarship is undisputed, yet the example of her great work alone is not why Radio Studies is now thriving. It is also because Hilmes has done the (arguably much harder) work of field-building.
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Tags: Disciplinarity, Field-building, historiography, media history, media studies, Michele Hilmes, radio, radio studies, sound studies
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