Dear all, we'd kindly like to remind you that the call for papers for VIEW Journal of European Television History & Culture's special issue on *Audiovisual Data in Digital Humanities* is coming up soon! Find the full text at http://viewjournal.eu/callforpapers/special-issue-on-audiovisual-data-in-digital-humanities/ or below and make sure to send in your abstract by Monday, October 2nd! With kind regards, Erwin Verbruggen // VIEW Publishing Support Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision // EUscreen On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Erwin Verbruggen < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear all, > > VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture has a *Call for > Papers* out on Audiovisual Data in Digital Humanities. This special issue > is co-edited by Mark Williams, Pelle Snickars, and Andreas Fickers. > > Please find the full call text below or at http://viewjournal.eu/callforp > apers/special-issue-on-audiovisual-data-in-digital-humanities/. You can > send in your paper proposals by October 2nd, 2017. > > With kind regards, > Erwin Verbruggen > > > Erwin Verbruggen > Project lead R&D > > Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision > Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB > Hilversum | beeldengeluid.nl > > -- > > *"Audiovisual Data in Digital Humanities"* > > VIEW Journal Call for Papers > > Considering the relevance of audiovisual material as perhaps the biggest > wave of data to come in the near future (Smith, 2013, IBM prospective > study) its relatively modest position within the realm of Digital > Humanities conferences is remarkable. The objective of this special issue > for VIEW is to present current research in that field on a variety of > epistemological, historiographical and technological issues that are > specific for digital methods applied to audiovisual data. We strive to > cover a great range of media and data types and of applications > representing the various stages of the research process. > > *The following key topics / problems / questions are of special interest:* > > 1. Do computational approaches to sound and (moving) images extend > or/and change our conceptual and epistemological understanding of these > media? What are the leading machine learning approaches to the study of > audio and visual culture and particularly time-based media? How do these > approaches, models, and methods of learning relate to acquiring and > producing knowledge by the conventional means of reading and analyzing > text? Do we understand the 20th century differently through listening to > sounds and voices and viewing images than through reading texts? How does > massive digitization and online access relate to the concept of > authenticity and provenance? > 2. What tools in the sequence of the research process – search, > annotation, vocabulary, analysis, presentation – are best suited to work > with audio-visual data? The ways in which we structure and process > information are primarily determined by the convention of attributing > meaning to visual content through text. Does searching audio-visual > archives, annotating photos or film clips, analyzing a corpus of city > sounds, or presenting research output through a virtual exhibition, require > special dedicated tools? What is the diversity in requirements within the > communities of humanities scholars? How can, for example, existing > commercial tools or software be repurposed for scholarly use? > 3. What are the main hurdles for the further expansion of AV in DH? > Compared to text, audiovisual data as carriers of knowledge are a > relatively young phenomenon. Consequently the question of ‘ownership’ and > the commercial value of many audiovisual sources result in considerable > constraints for use due to issues of copyright. A constraint of a > completely different order, is the intensive investment in time needed when > listening to or watching an audiovisual corpus, compared to reading a text. > Does the law or do technologies for speech and image retrieval offer > solutions to overcome these obstacles? > > > *Practicals*Contributions are encouraged from authors with different > kinds of expertise and interests in media studies, digital humanities, > television and media history. > Paper proposals (max. 500 words) are due on October 2nd , 2017. > Submissions should be sent to the managing editor of the journal, Dana > Mustata <[log in to unmask]>. > A notice of acceptance will be sent to authors in the 1st week of November > 2017. > Articles (3 – 6,000 words) will be due on 15 th of February 2018. Longer > articles are welcome, given that they comply with the journal’s author > guidelines. > For further information or questions about the issue, please contact the > co-editors: Mark Williams <[log in to unmask]> (Associate > Professor Film and Media Studies, Dartmouth College U.S.), Pelle Snickars > <[log in to unmask]> (Prof. of Media Studies Umea Univesity, Sweden) > or Andreas Fickers <[log in to unmask]> (Luxembourg Centre for > Contemporary and Digital History). > > *About VIEW Journal* > See http://www.viewjournal.eu/ for the current and back issues. VIEW is > supported by the EUscreen Network and published by the Netherlands > Institute for Sound and Vision in collaboration with Utrecht University, > Royal Holloway University of London, and University of Luxembourg. VIEW is > proud to be an open access journal. All articles are indexed through the > Directory of Open Access Journals, the EBSCO Film and Television Index, > Paperity and NARCIS. > ᐧ > ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: https://listserv.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html