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Continue reading →: Annual conference of the Studienkreis Rundfunk und Geschichte: “Media upheavals since 1950”
Coming up in a few weeks: The annual conference of the Studienkreis Rundfunk und Geschichte in co-operation with the Medientreffpunkt Mitteldeutschland, Leipzig 8.-9. Mai 2012. The theme for this year’s conference is “Media Upheavals since 1950”: In the last ten years, a fundamental change in the media spectrum has taken place:…
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Continue reading →: Chocolate: A Global History – now out in Korean
I came home yesterday to a delightful discovery: the Korean translation of Sarah Moss’s and my short book Chocolate: A Global History. I am not even sure what else to say, other than it is a truly bizarre thing not being able to read a book you wrote. That, and…
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Continue reading →: Journal of European Television History and Culture now out
The first issue of the Journal of European Television History and Culture has now been published online. This online, open-access journal is directly connected to the EUScreen project, and as it develops will make greater use of the online resources of EUScreen to drive a new sort of writing about television history.…
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Continue reading →: Raina Konstantinova, radio’s champion, stepping down at the EBU
I have just received word that Ms Raina Konstantinova is now stepping down as head of the radio section of the European Broadcasting Union. The organization is re-organizing into a new ‘media’ section that consolidates Radio and Television. I have had a lot of inspirational moments in my (somewhat intermittent) career…
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Continue reading →: New article: “Harmonized Spaces, Dissonant Objects, Inventing Europe? Mobilizing Digital Heritage”
My new article on digital heritage in Europe has just been published in a special theme section of Culture Unbound on “Exhibiting Europe”. “Harmonized Spaces, Dissonant Objects, Inventing Europe? Mobilizing Digital Heritage”, Culture Unbound, Volume 3, 2011: 295–315 Abstract Technology, particularly digitization and the online availability of cultural heritage…
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Continue reading →: Now, where was I….?
I AM still here, though sometimes I have felt like an electron: more a probability than a presence these last few months. (I keep hoping I might upgrade my status to neutrino – might make time planning a bit easier, though would seriously screw up my lessons on narrative…) My activity…
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Continue reading →: User generated content @ THATCamp
So here I am at THATcamp Florence, and I actually proposed a session on user-generated content. You see, I am working on this here virtual exhibit on the history of technology in Europe from 1850 to the present. It is a collaborative effort with a number of cultural heritage partners,…
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Continue reading →: “Sound Bridges, Sound Walls” conference in Hilversum
A few months ago, I posted the call for papers from the first joint conference of the Vereniging Beeld en Geluid and the Studienkries Rundfunk und Geschichte. It has been a bit of a ride putting it together due to a range of unforeseeable cicrumstances, but it is my very…
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Continue reading →: New publications part II: Materializing Europe
I am pleased to announce the publication of the volume edited by me and Andreas Fickers of Maastricht University: Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe. This book is the product of the “Transnational Infrastructures and the Rise of Contemporary Europe” (TIE) project at the Technical University of Eindhoven…
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Continue reading →: New publications – part I: Rundfunk und Geschichte
There is another publication to be mentioned at length very soon, but before that happens, I want to mention the new issue of Rundfunk und Geschichte (click on the link for the Table of Contents) which just appeared. Several parts of this I find worthy of note (if I do say…
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 