2015 | 7 | Archaeologies of Tele-Visions and -Realities

This issue presents archaeological inquiries into the multiple pasts of tele-visions. It aims to assess the many lives of television and highlights from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives what has shaped television as a technical infrastructure, political and social institution, cultural phenomenon and business model.
Co-edited by Andreas Fickers and Anne-Katrin Weber

Andreas Fickers; Anne-Katrin Weber:

Editorial: Towards an Archaeology of Television

S. 1-7

Discoveries

Amanda Murphy; Rowan Aust; Vanessa Jackson; John Ellis:

16mm Film Editing for Television: Using Filmed Simulation as a Hands-on Approach to TV History

S. 7-10

Ken Griffin:

The Lessons of Counterpoint: Wolfgang Ernst’s Media Archaeology and Practical Archival Research

S. 11-20

Tom Slootweg; Susan Aasman:

Democratic Television in The Netherlands: Two Curious Cases of Alternative Media as Counter-Technologies

S. 21-37

Jasmijn Van Gorp; Sonja de Leeuw; Justin van Wees; Bouke Huurnink:

Digital Media Archaeology: Digging into the Digital Tool AVResearcherXL

S. 38-53

Explorations

Doron Galili:

Tom Swift’s Three Inventions of Television: Media History and the Technological Imaginary

S. 54-67

Phil Ellis:

Picking Up (On) Fragments

S. 68-89

Alison Gazzard:

Extending the Aerial: Uncovering Histories of Teletext and Telesoftware in Britain

S. 90-98

Ilkin Mehrabov:

Novel Televisual Environments: Immersive Spectatorship and the Future of Stereoscopic 3DTV

S. 99-109

Ghislain Thibault:

Streaming: A Media Hydrography of Televisual Flows

S. 110-119

Adam Hulbert:

Without Latency: Cathode Immersions and the Neglected Practice of Xenocasting for Television and Radio

S. 120-135