FlowTV.org CFP: The Archive
Due Date: Friday, May 7, 2010
"Silences enter the process of historical production at four crucial
moments: the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the
moment of fact assembly (the making of archives); the moment of fact
retrieval (the making of narratives); and the moment of retrospective
significance (the making of history in the final instance)."
--Michel-Rolph Trouillot, "Silencing the Past"
For this special issue, we are soliciting columns that use media
archives as sources and explore archives as objects of study in
themselves. In particular, Flow seeks to problematize the rhetoric of
"new," "digital," "ephemeral," and "interchangeable" with regard to
our multifaceted media landscape and ask: In what very real ways do we
form, practice, and extract from the archive? How does the archive
function as a connection between the past and the present (and an
example of the past's place in the present)? How does media function
in the archive and as an archive? How can archival study be used to
further public knowledge and historical consciousness? Which voices
are filtered out, and which gain admission to the archive? What about
the "unarchivable" -- affective, unwriteable, experiential?
In a sense, this special issue will itself be an archive: What is the
current state of the mass-mediated past?
Some possible subjects include:
* Social media as archive
* Film preservation
* DVR
* The actor's, producer's and director's archive
* Queer temporalities and media practices
* Trauma, public memory, media
* News gathering
* The Internet as archive and archiving the Internet
* DVDs as television archives
* Mobile technology as archive
* Reproducibility across media
* TV networks as archives--TV Land/Nick at Nite, ESPN Classic,
AMC, History channel
* Popular media in national or official archives
Flow has a longstanding policy of encouraging non-jargony, highly
readable pieces and ample incorporation of images and video. Please
send submissions (attached as a Word doc) of between 1000-1500 words
to [log in to unmask] no later than May 7, 2010. Images must be
accompanied by a hyperlink to their original source on the web or
other image credits.
FlowTV.org is the University of Texas at Austin, Department of
Radio-TV-Film's journal of television and new media.
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Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the
University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu
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