<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>In March, we published the call for
papers for the sixth <span class="">issue</span> of EUscreen'<span class="">s</span> open access journal VIEW, which
explores European <span class="">television</span> history and culture. At the end of
December, this latest <span class="">issue</span> found its way online and it is <span class="">now</span> fully and
freely <span class="">available</span> at <a href="http://www.viewjournal.eu/index.php/view/issue/view/6/showToc" target="_blank">www.viewjournal.eu</a>.
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.</div><div><br>This
sixth <span class="">issue</span> 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.<br><br>The history of media convergence, especially
of <span class="">convergent</span> <span class="">television</span>, 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.<br><br>This <span class="">issue</span> 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.<br><br><h2>Table of Contents</h2><ul><li><a href="http://viewjournal.eu/index.php/view/article/view/JETHC064/163" target="_blank">Editorial</a> – Gabriele Balbi, Massimo Scaglioni</li></ul><h3>Discoveries</h3><ul><li><a href="http://viewjournal.eu/index.php/view/article/view/JETHC065/167" target="_blank">‘More Than a <span class="">Television</span> Channel’: Channel 4, FilmFour and a Failed Convergence Strategy</a> – Hannah Andrews</li><li><a href="http://viewjournal.eu/index.php/view/article/view/JETHC066/162" target="_blank">Public Service <span class="">Television</span> in a Multi-Platform Environment: A Comparative Study in Finland and Israel</a> – Oranit Klein Shagrir, Heidi Keinonen</li><li><a href="http://viewjournal.eu/index.php/view/article/view/JETHC067/164" target="_blank">Multiscreening and Social TV: The Changing Landscape of TV Consumption in Italy</a> – Alberto Marinelli, Romana Andò</li><li><a href="http://viewjournal.eu/index.php/view/article/view/JETHC068/168" target="_blank">Newspaper Video Content: Genres and Editorial Formats in Spain</a> – Samuel Negredo</li><li><a href="http://viewjournal.eu/index.php/view/article/view/JETHC069/169" target="_blank"><span class="">Convergent</span> Cultures: The Disappearance of Commissioned Audiovisual Productions in The Netherlands</a> – Bas Agterberg</li></ul><h3>Explorations</h3><ul><li><a href="http://viewjournal.eu/index.php/view/article/view/JETHC070/170" target="_blank">Wide-Screen <span class="">Television</span> and Home Movies: Towards an Archaeology of <span class="">Television</span> and Cinema Convergence Before Digitalisation</a> – Tom James Longley Steward</li><li><a href="http://viewjournal.eu/index.php/view/article/view/JETHC071/171" target="_blank"><span class="">Convergent</span> <span class="">Television</span> and ‘Audience Participation’: The Early Days of Interactive Digital <span class="">Television</span> in the UK</a> – Vivi Theodoropoulou</li><li><a href="http://viewjournal.eu/index.php/view/article/view/JETHC072/172" target="_blank">ARTE:
French-German Experiments in Crossing the Borders. ‘One Media – Three
Screens’ Convergence and Interactivity at its Full Potential?</a> – Anna Wiehl</li><li><a href="http://viewjournal.eu/index.php/view/article/view/JETHC073/165" target="_blank">‘The Schneiderverse’: Nickelodeon, <span class="">Convergent</span> <span class="">Television</span> and Transmedia Storytelling</a> – Helena Louise Dare-Edwards</li><li><a href="http://viewjournal.eu/index.php/view/article/view/JETHC074/166" target="_blank">TV Goes Social: Italian Broadcasting Strategies and the Challenges of Convergence</a> – Luca Barra, Massimo Scaglioni</li><li><a href="http://viewjournal.eu/index.php/view/article/view/JETHC075/173" target="_blank">Digital Convergence and Content Regulation</a> – Michael John Starks</li></ul><br>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 <span class="">Television</span> History Network and the Netherlands
Organization for Scientific Research.<br><br>Warm regards,</div><font color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;line-height:19px"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12px"><strong><font color="#e00034">Erwin Verbruggen</font></strong><br><font color="#222222">Project lead K&I</font></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12px"><font color="#222222"><a href="mailto:everbruggen@beeldengeluid.nl" target="_blank" class="fullcontact-active-email">everbruggen@beeldengeluid.nl</a> // <a href="mailto:support@viewjournal.eu" target="_blank">support@viewjournal.eu</a><br></font></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:15px;font-size:9.5px"><font color="#e00034"><strong>Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision</strong></font><br><font color="#222222"><strong>Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB Hilversum | </strong></font><a href="http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/" target="_blank"><font color="#222222"><strong>beeldengeluid.nl</strong></font></a></p></span></font></div></span></font><div hspace="streak-pt-mark" style="max-height:1px"><img style="width:0px; max-height:0px;" src="https://mailfoogae.appspot.com/t?sender=aZXZlcmJydWdnZW5AYmVlbGRlbmdlbHVpZC5ubA%3D%3D&type=zerocontent&guid=9ad2261f-8008-4d25-a534-2538107af9f5"><font color="#ffffff" size="1">ᐧ</font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div></div></body></html>