Call for proposals | Le Temps des Médias
Call for proposals for an issue of the journal Le Temps des Médias
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STORAGE
Edited by Katharina Niemeyer and Valérie Schafer
Abstract submission deadline: 6 November 2020
Although the topics of memory and archives have given rise to considerable cross-disciplinary interest, the issue of storage – of media content, information, data, documents and objects, as well as the use of stored content – has received less attention. In particular, and more specifically in French speaking scholarly work, research has rarely viewed the question of storage in conjunction with the related long-term practices.
This special issue therefore intends to explore three strands – the storage of media content, storage media, and the use of stored content– and links between them. Whether on an individual or collective, professional or institutional level, we want to investigate these questions from a long-term media history perspective, going back for example to the republication of articles in gazettes, the emergence of news agencies in the 19th century, Scott de Martinville’s phonautograph, the paleophone invented by Cros – even the introduction of the legal deposit by French King Francis I and the volumen and codex (Laguës, Beaudoin and Chapoutier, 2017). The related issues of flows and persistence also merit analysis (Merzeau, 2009). (more…)