Laura LaPlaca writes about the material resilience of broadcast history from the perspective of a collector and archivist, discussing the importance of acknowledging the stuff that radio and television leave behind, especially in the face of an overwhelming emphasis on the "ephemerality" of these media.
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Posts Tagged ‘ media archives ’
“Something Into Nothing”: On the Materiality of the Broadcast Archive
Audiovisual Archives and the Context Conundrum
Stephanie Sapienza, Project Manager at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), advocates for why the audio and paper materials of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB)'s radio collection - housed at the University of Maryland and the University of Wisconsin-Madison - need to be integrated online to maximize their usefulness...
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Digital Tools for Television Historiography, Part I
In the inaugural post in our "Digital Tools" series, Elana Levine discusses DEVONthink document management software and her methods for organizing historical research materials digitally.
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A Turn Toward the Ruins of Radio History
Peter Schaefer writes about the public face of radio preservation, making a case for acknowledging what's been lost to the ages while simultaneously showcasing what's been found.
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