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Continue reading →: When have you learned?
A quarter of a century ago, I regularly did art. I refused then to call myself an artist, because it felt pretentious and scary to do so, but also because it implied possessing a craft that I simply didn’t. Instead I embraced (or hid behind, depending on how you look…
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Continue reading →: My dream theatre is your terror
Bear with me here, I’m starting with muppets. One of the most brilliant, and often under-appreciated, aspects of the muppets and Sesame Street is their transcendent use of songs. Songs like Rainbow Connection (Paul Williams), Somebody Come and Play (Joe Raposo), Bein Green (Raposo), Gonzo’s moving I’m Going to Go…
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Continue reading →: Goodbye and all that. Goodbye to all that?
I try, as a rule, not to take my earworms too seriously, but I never cease to be amazed at the way tunes I have not heard in decades sometimes resurface in my consciousness and don’t leave. I guess it works like dreams. Sometimes there’s a clear trigger – and…
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Continue reading →: the important stuff
This week, teaching begins again. My colleagues and I all seem to be running on a mixture of enthusiasm about teaching in person again, and concerns that, against the advice they were given, the Dutch government have chosen to open up higher education completely: no masks mandate, no vaccination, no…
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Continue reading →: DIY culture and problems of participation
I am writing my last ‘lecture’ of the calendar year, based in part on m 2013 book chapter with Caroline Nevejan on the relationship between the new civic culture fostered by the squatters movement and the rise of Amsterdam’s digital culture. I was meant to deliver it as a video…
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Continue reading →: In real time
Listen: Dr Badenoch has become stuck in time. Brushing the rust off of this site as an actual blog, lord help us. My ambition is to do a short series of posts here, some of which will reflect on my past research. You know, in lieu of doing actual research…
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Continue reading →: Report from EMHIS VIII in Gregynog, Wales, 14–16 May | Entangled Media Histories
Source: Report from EMHIS VIII in Gregynog, Wales, 14–16 May | Entangled Media Histories
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Continue reading →: Follow-up on the Summer School on Transnational Radio History | C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
The Summer School was organised in order to offer to the participants, early career researchers who came from everywhere in Europe, and all the way from Russia and from Chile, the opportunity to not Source: Follow-up on the Summer School on Transnational Radio History | C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for…
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Continue reading →: Programm und Anmeldung Jahrestagung 2018 „Materialitäten“ 28.-29.6. in Mannheim | Studienkreis Rundfunk und Geschichte
Source: Programm und Anmeldung Jahrestagung 2018 „Materialitäten“ 28.-29.6. in Mannheim | Studienkreis Rundfunk und Geschichte
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Continue reading →: Jahrestagung 2018 „Materialitäten“ – Einreichungsfrist bis zum 9.4.2018 verlängert | Studienkreis Rundfunk und Geschichte
Source: Jahrestagung 2018 „Materialitäten“ – Einreichungsfrist bis zum 9.4.2018 verlängert | Studienkreis Rundfunk und Geschichte
Alec
I’m a media historian, with special interests in broadcasting, transnational processes and cultures, archives, women’s history and a few other things. I am Assistant Professor for Media and Culture at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. I am also a migrant, a dad, a Gen-Xer, and a widower. Sometimes I write about those things, too.
Alec Badenoch 