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Digital Media Archaeology: Digging into the Digital Tool AVResearcherXL

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dc.creatorGorp, Jasmijn van
dc.creatorde Leeuw, Sonja
dc.creatorvan Wees, Justin
dc.creatorHuurnink, Bouke
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-13T11:47:33Z
dc.date.available2020-08-13T11:47:33Z
dc.date.issued2015-09-09
dc.description.abstractRecently, scholarly works started to turn their interest to the epistemological and methodological challenges that research with new digital tools and technologies do pose. In this article, we would like to contribute to this methodological discussion and to shed light on the role of digital tools for media studies, by taking the tool AVResearcherXL as case in point. AVResearcherXL is a new exploratory tool for media studies research, enabling users to search across, compare and visualize both the metadata of Dutch public television and radio programmes, and a selection of Dutch newspaper articles of the Dutch Royal Library. By tracing the word ‘television’ with the use of the tool, we provide a practical use case of doing media archaeology with digital tools for media archives. Our deconstruction shows the importance of a media archaeological approach to look into the materiality of digital technology as well as the relevance of studying the deep material structure of media technology. AVResearcherXL thus could be seen as an archaeological site in which the user or ‘archaeologist’ decides where to dig and which search lights to use. Using AVResearcherXL to do media (historical) research is not about finding the ‘right’ answers, but about contextualising results, and about finding new, sometimes unexpected, pathways and questions.en
dc.identifier.doi10.18146/2213-0969.2015.jethc080
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14118
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/15083
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNetherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
dc.publisher.placeHilversum
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0969
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectFernsehende
dc.subjectDigital Humanitiesen
dc.subjectMethodologyen
dc.subjectdigital toolsen
dc.subjectnewspapersen
dc.subjecttelevision archivesen
dc.subject.ddcddc:070
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleDigital Media Archaeology: Digging into the Digital Tool AVResearcherXLen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2021-05-29T06:07:46
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2015.jethc080
local.source.epage53
local.source.issue7
local.source.spage38
local.source.volume4

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