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    MEDIA STUDIES COMMISSION

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    Media Studies Commission

    WHAT DO WE DO?

    The Media Studies Commission works at the intersection between archival expertise and specialized academic knowledge in the field of media history and archive-driven research.

    Media Studies Commission

    Promote and facilitate academic research into FIAT/IFTA member archives

    Media Studies Commission

    Publicise research that enhances the value of archives

    Media Studies Commission

    Facilitate contact with archives from the FIAT/IFTA community

    Media Studies Commission

    Provide advice on accessing FIAT/IFTA members’ collections for research purposes

    Media Studies Commission

    WHAT DO WE DO?

    The Media Studies Commission works at the intersection between archival expertise and specialized academic knowledge in the field of media history and archive-driven research.

    Media Studies Commission

    Promote and facilitate academic research into FIAT/IFTA member archives

    Media Studies Commission

    Publicise research that enhances the value of archives

    Media Studies Commission

    Facilitate contact with archives from the FIAT/IFTA community

    Media Studies Commission

    Provide advice on accessing FIAT/IFTA members’ collections for research purposes

    Some of the Media Studies Commission activities:

    Media Studies Commission

    Seminars

    The Media Studies Commission (co-)organises international seminars on themes related to media history and issues relevant to archival access and archive-driven media research.

    Media Studies Commission

    Media Studies Grant

    As part of its mission to enhance collaboration between research and archive communities and ensure the valorization of academic knowledge for archival practices, the MSC awards annual grants for small-scale research projects that are carried out in collaboration with member archives.

    Media Studies Commission

    Information Exchange

    The Media Studies Commission serves as an international forum for exchanging information on archival access and archive-driven media research.

    Media Studies Commission

    Consulting

    The MSC consults researchers as well as FIAT/IFTA members and non-members on issues pertaining to academic research into archival collections and the valorization of archives through academic research.

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    Media Studies Grant

    Since 2014, the Media Studies Commission has been actively commissioning research into FIAT/IFTA members’ archive collections and research into issues relevant to the FIAT/IFTA archive communities. 

    The Media Studies Grant is aimed primarily at enhancing collaboration between research and archive communities and ensuring the valorization of academic knowledge for archival practice. The grant is open to MA and doctoral students and junior and senior researchers. This funding scheme has been given priority to projects that research topics relevant to an archive institution’s history, transnational media history, or archival practice. 

    Research carried out through the Media Studies Grant is made available to the FIAT/IFTA archive community through conference presentations and research reports. Previous research reports from the Media Studies Grant are accessible through open access on the FIAT/IFTA website. A new Media Studies Grant Call for Papers is issued at the start of each calendar year. 

    Research Papers of the FIAT/IFTA Media Studies Grant

    How Music Shapes the News: A Postcolonial Look at Polygoon Newsreels, 1930-87

    by Emily Hansell Clark, University of Amsterdam

    Broadcasting UK Feminist Video: Mapping Local Histories and Transnational Networks of the 1980s in the BFI Archive

    by Dalila Missero, Lancaster University

    Women in Early Australian Television Production

    by Jeannine Baker, University of Wollongong

    Immersive Datascapes (and other modes of knowing)

    by Giulia Taurino, Northeastern University

    Evolution of human pitch: Preliminary analyses in the French population using INA audiovisual archives of Vox Pops

    by Melissa Barkat, University of Montpellier

    Exploring Rai Digital Archives: a new Didactic Methodology for Social Inclusion and Discovery of the Environment

    by Ornella Castiglione, University of Milan-Bicocca

    Diada de Sant Jordi through the TV3 audiovisual archive

    by Juan-José Boté, University of Barcelona

    How television archives reach younger audiences through social networks. The case of Regional Television of Andalusia (RTVA) and Spanish Radio and Television Corporation (RTVE)

    by Antonio Cuartero, University of Malaga

    Towards an Audiovisual Archaeology of the End of the Cold War in Latin America

    by Luisa Ordoñez, Señal Memoria

    The forgotten channel: Europa TV

    by Saskia Cluistra, Erasmus University Rotterdam

    The Governance of cultural memory through audiovisual broadcast archives. Preservation and accessibility in four European countries

    by Catherine Sarikakis e.a., University of Vienna

    All Research Papers

    COMMISSION CHAIR

    Dana Mustata
    Dana Mustata
    MSC Chair
    University of Groningen
    Assistant Professor Audiovisual Culture

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