This project uses Weimar Cinema as a case study to develop a model of the film canonization process. Drawing on Historical Institutionalism, literary canon studies, New Cinema History and digital film historiography, I argue that canonization is a path dependent process made up of a series of “filters” from production, to marketing, distribution, critical and scholarly reception and preservation.
Similar to other societal inequalities, digital inequality may drive wedges in the ways society coheres, through shaping the inclusion and opportunities experienced differently across groups. Therefore, this PhD project seeks to explore the complexities of “socio-digital inequalities”– referring to the interconnectedness between digital and broader societal inequalities – by bringing together academic and experiential knowledge on technologies and media, socio-digital inequality, intersectionality, and social (co-)inclusion (Helsper, 2022, p. 4).
This project aims to examine the intersection between journalistic practices and the space where the news is being written by applying methodologies of spatial theories. By doing so, it will trace the evolution and transformation of these spaces and relate them to micro-narratives collected from interviews with former Yugoslav journalists. Their valuable insights will be situated into a broader context of historical development and interrepublic relations that will serve to track the dissemination of the news within the socialist state.
Music festivals no longer start at the gate or end with the last act. Instead, they begin months before, unfold dynamically during, and linger long after as organizers and audiences leverage technologies to shape collective memories, experiences and anticipations (Hammelburg, 2020; Hill et al., 2022). Festivals are inherently spatialized, taking place in a designated space within which participants are separated from non-participating bodies for a set period of time (Woodward & Swartjes, 2024).
This PhD research is part of the HAICu project, a collaboration between AI and digital humanities researchers, journalists, and stakeholders in digital cultural heritage collections in the Netherlands. HAICu seeks to answer the following research question: ‘How can human-centered AI technology, along with its future institutional and individual users, provide new forms of reliable access and storytelling for the Netherlands' vast yet largely untapped multimodal cultural heritage collections?’