[artinfo] New issue on "Convergent Television(s)"

[Erwin Verbruggen]

Dear colleagues,

In March, we published the call for papers for 
the sixth issue of EUscreen's open access journal 
VIEW, which explores European television history 
and culture. At the end of December, this latest 
issue found its way online and it is now fully 
and freely available 
at <http://www.viewjournal.eu/index.php/view/issue/view/6/showToc>www.viewjournal.eu. 
All articles can be read on screen, where source 
materials can be found embedded in the article 
text, or saved as a PDF for reading offline.

This sixth issue is co-edited by Gabriele Balbi, 
Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the 
Università della Svizzera italiana, and Massimo 
Scaglioni, Assistant Professor of Media History 
at the Catholic University of Milan.

The history of media convergence, especially of 
convergent television, is a field that needed 
further investigation. Media convergence is often 
considered a taken-for-granted phenomenon, a kind 
of 'irresistible' force that has changed and is 
continuously changing media ecosystems. 
Furthermore, it seems to be mainly an American 
phenomenon because it has involved US politics 
and companies and because the most relevant 
reflections and publications on this topic come 
from American scholars.

This issue of VIEW tries to deal with this 
complex and polysemic concept from different 
points of view, adopting several theoretical and 
methodological frameworks. It attempts to 
counteract some of the aforementioned 
taken-for-granted ideas, analyzing TV convergence 
from a historical and long-term perspective, 
considering symmetrical case studies of success 
and failures, concentrating on the European 
dimension through the lens of transnational, 
comparative, and national contributions.

VIEW is published by the Netherlands Institute 
for Sound and Vision in collaboration with 
Utrecht University, University of Luxembourg and 
Royal Holloway University of London. It is 
supported by the EUscreenXL project, the European 
Television History Network and the Netherlands 
Organization for Scientific Research.

Warm regards,

Erwin Verbruggen
Project lead K&I

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