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Archives, Mismatches, Hacks! Overcoming Archival Boundaries in Transnational Research

Author(s): Strandgaard Jensen, Helle

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In this article, I use my experiences in writing about the transnational history of Sesame Street to point toward ways forward for researchers interested in investigating entangled European broadcasting histories. I will point to places where I found European interconnections in journals, committees, and festivals and consider what the availability of these published and unpublished sources has meant for my inquiries. I will also explain how I used a specific content-management software (Tropy) to ‘hack’ and go beyond the national boundaries encoded in the archival collections I used. Finally, I suggest that perhaps it is not audiovisual material broadcasting archives first and foremost need to make available in digital formats if we want to further boundary-crossing television history; instead, I believe that the possibility of sharing self-digitized printed material should be a particular focus in the future.

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Strandgaard Jensen, Helle: Archives, Mismatches, Hacks! Overcoming Archival Boundaries in Transnational Research. In: VIEW. Journal of European Television History and Culture, Jg. 12 (2023), Nr. 24, S. 29-38. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/21816.
@ARTICLE{Strandgaard Jensen2023,
 author = {Strandgaard Jensen, Helle},
 title = {Archives, Mismatches, Hacks! Overcoming Archival Boundaries in Transnational Research},
 year = 2023,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/21816}",
 volume = 12,
 address = {Hilversum},
 journal = {VIEW. Journal of European Television History and Culture},
 number = 24,
 pages = {29--38},
}
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