Distant Viewing the Audiovisual Communication of Swedish Government Agencies
(2020) Digital History in Sweden: Integrating Digital History- Abstract
- Anslagstavlan is a neglected but important part of Sweden’s modern audiovisual heritage. The purpose of this media historical and digital humanities project is to study the aesthetic, narrative and rhetorical development of audiovisual government information on Swedish television. While much research has been devoted to the Swedish public service model, wherein regulated independence from the government has been a cornerstone, little is known about Swedish television’s function as a communication tool for government authorities. The focal point of the study is SVT’s bulletin program Anslagstavlan, a unique feature that has never been the subject of any academic study. SVT started broadcasting Anslagstavlan in 1972 with the explicit aim to... (More)
- Anslagstavlan is a neglected but important part of Sweden’s modern audiovisual heritage. The purpose of this media historical and digital humanities project is to study the aesthetic, narrative and rhetorical development of audiovisual government information on Swedish television. While much research has been devoted to the Swedish public service model, wherein regulated independence from the government has been a cornerstone, little is known about Swedish television’s function as a communication tool for government authorities. The focal point of the study is SVT’s bulletin program Anslagstavlan, a unique feature that has never been the subject of any academic study. SVT started broadcasting Anslagstavlan in 1972 with the explicit aim to make government information stylistically and narratively attractive—all in order to capture peoples’ attention. In this way, the producers, commissioners and television officials behind Anslagstavlan, like public service television in general, had dual goals in mind; Anslagstavlan was to provide both information and entertainment.
This paper focuses on an influential yet underexplored genre of television, both from a national and an international point-of-view. As large numbers of digitized audiovisual media become available on different platforms, there are today new ways to explore and understand the development of television narratives and aesthetics. To analyze Anslagstavlan, this project uses digital video analytics tools (such as Distant Viewing Toolkit) and automatic speech recognition—foremost in co- operation with developers at the KB-lab research environment at the National Library of Sweden where all TV-programs are preserved. The central aim is to discover patterns and trends in the aesthetic techniques and narrative tropes featured in audiovisual government information. (Less)
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- Stjernholm, Emil LU
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- publishing date
- 2020
- type
- Contribution to conference
- publication status
- unpublished
- subject
- keywords
- digital humanities, digital methods, cultural analytics, visual analysis, automatic speech recognition
- conference name
- Digital History in Sweden: Integrating Digital History
- conference location
- Uppsala, Sweden
- conference dates
- 2020-12-03 - 2020-12-04
- project
- Televising Information: Audiovisual Communication of Swedish Government Agencies
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- English
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- yes
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- 26427c27-fb2a-45d1-8a91-27e9bc0d6733
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abstract = {{Anslagstavlan is a neglected but important part of Sweden’s modern audiovisual heritage. The purpose of this media historical and digital humanities project is to study the aesthetic, narrative and rhetorical development of audiovisual government information on Swedish television. While much research has been devoted to the Swedish public service model, wherein regulated independence from the government has been a cornerstone, little is known about Swedish television’s function as a communication tool for government authorities. The focal point of the study is SVT’s bulletin program Anslagstavlan, a unique feature that has never been the subject of any academic study. SVT started broadcasting Anslagstavlan in 1972 with the explicit aim to make government information stylistically and narratively attractive—all in order to capture peoples’ attention. In this way, the producers, commissioners and television officials behind Anslagstavlan, like public service television in general, had dual goals in mind; Anslagstavlan was to provide both information and entertainment.<br/>This paper focuses on an influential yet underexplored genre of television, both from a national and an international point-of-view. As large numbers of digitized audiovisual media become available on different platforms, there are today new ways to explore and understand the development of television narratives and aesthetics. To analyze Anslagstavlan, this project uses digital video analytics tools (such as Distant Viewing Toolkit) and automatic speech recognition—foremost in co- operation with developers at the KB-lab research environment at the National Library of Sweden where all TV-programs are preserved. The central aim is to discover patterns and trends in the aesthetic techniques and narrative tropes featured in audiovisual government information.}},
author = {{Stjernholm, Emil}},
keywords = {{digital humanities; digital methods; cultural analytics; visual analysis; automatic speech recognition}},
language = {{eng}},
title = {{Distant Viewing the Audiovisual Communication of Swedish Government Agencies}},
year = {{2020}},
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