Presentation by Berber Hagedoorn (UU) at the NECS Conference 2012 in Lisbon, Portugal, in the panel 'Unstable Histories: The Problem of Seeing and Understanding 'Old' Television in the Digital Age'.

1. Providing Online Access to Television
History: Considering the TV User
Berber Hagedoorn, MA (Utrecht University)
b.hagedoorn@uu.nl

2. Increasing popularity of television history...
... points to complex relationship between
individual and cultural history and memory

3. Television history as powerful cultural
resource for audiences
 Analysis of different strategies by means of which
television history can become a powerful cultural
resource for audiences. Focus today on:
3. Cases of best practice:
 EUscreen, (comparative) virtual exhibitions
 BBC Memoryshare
E Complexities of such contemporary strategies in
accessing television history

4. EUscreen virtual exhibitions
 Comparative virtual exhibitions: items selected by
content providers, curated by academics, showcasing material
and telling TV history in Europe with specific questions in
mind
 History of European Television (curator Dana Mustata)
 Being European (curator Sian Barber)
 Virtual exhibition builder tool: for users (education)
 Content provider exhibitions (special collections)

7. EUscreen sharing button

8. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/memoryshare/home

9. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/memoryshare/home

10. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/memoryshare/home

11. Providing Online Access to Television
History: Considering the TV User
 Important preconditions:
 Stimulus and presence
 E.g. dates/times, events, working closely with news
 Contextualization
 A successful production process does not
necessarily guarantee success in use

12. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11767495

13. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11767495