In this full-day workshop, RMA students and PhD candidates will get acquainted with the possibilities of incorporating digitised audiovisual media sources in their research. The workshop will introduce the participants to media-historical approaches in political history, by reflecting on historiographical trends and experimenting with digital methods to study primary source materials. Registration: bureau@onderzoekschoolpolitiekegeschiedenis.nl.
Supervisors: Solange Ploeg M.A. (Radboud University), Dr. Vincent Kuitenbrouwer (University of Amsterdam)
Date: 28 March 2025
Location: Beeld en Geluid/Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Mediapark Hilversum
Credits: 1 ECTS
In this full-day workshop, RMA students and PhD candidates will get acquainted with the possibilities of incorporating digitised audiovisual media sources in their research. The workshop will introduce the participants to media-historical approaches in political history, by reflecting on historiographical trends and experimenting with digital methods to study primary source materials. The workshop will start with exploring methodological starting points and bottlenecks in the fields of media studies and discourse analysis, and will discuss the current state of the art at the intersection of media and political history. Then, and most importantly, the workshop will introduce PhD candidates to a specific digital platform, the Clariah Media Suite, that holds a large amount of audiovisual sources and will provide them with hands-on training of techniques and tools for their own research. Through a meet-and-greet with the main curator and a guided tour, the students will finally get acquainted with the ways in which the Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision archives and digitises vast amounts of audiovisual material. This workshop is especially suitable for participants working on the 20th century and on Dutch political history.