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CURRENT ISSUES AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS OF MODERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE WORK OF THE «102 (112)» SERVICE
Authors: Abramov Sergey , Synytsina Yuliia
Published: November 2024

The work deals with current issues of information provision of the National Police based on a retrospective analysis of literary sources. The use of information technologies in the National Police of Ukraine is a critically important step for increasing the efficiency and transparency of police activities. It can also be added that these technologies ensure the efficiency, speed and completeness of the work of law enforcement agencies.
The methodological basis of scientific work is a system of general scientific and special methods of analysis: systematization and generalization (definition of the main categories, their relationship, formation of conclusions and proposals); monographic and system-structural analysis; assessment and situational; graphic (visualization of theoretical research results); factor analysis; expert and tabular analyses.
The object of the research is modern digital call-centers on the example of Call Way and AVAYA, as a component of the information support of the national police in the services of the «102» and «112» lines.
The subject of the research is the theoretical, scientific and methodological provisions and applied aspects of effective formation of the work of emergency services, information support of the national police in the services of the «102» and «112» lines.
It was found that the use of modern digital technologies can significantly increase the efficiency and quality of service to citizens in emergency situations.
Modern digital call centers were analyzed by the evaluation-situational method using the example of Call Way and AVAYA.
Prospective directions for the development of the automation of the «102 (112)» service have been determined, namely the introduction of voice recognition; use of artificial intelligence (AI); expansion of communication channels; introduction of video calls; data analysis for forecasting; integration with other security systems; application of augmented reality (AR); ensuring mobility; reliability and data protection; creation of interactive instructions, which will become a perspective for further research in this direction.
DIDACTIC CULTURE OF A TEACHER OF A HIGHER MILITARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION: STRUCTURE AND CHARACTERISTICS
Authors: Kizyan Ruslan , Plaksin Andrii
Published: November 2024

The article analyzes various research approaches to the interpretation of the concept of "didactic culture", its content and structure by establishing a dialectical relationship between general culture and didactic culture; a short historical excursion. An author's approach to defining the didactic culture of a teacher of a higher military educational institution is proposed. The ambiguity of the term "culture" is pointed out, taking into account the fact that culture itself is an extremely complex, multifaceted phenomenon that reflects all aspects of human existence. It is proposed to consider the studied concept as a creative component that concerns all human activity. Such a component has the ability to change a person's life in a positive direction, to create free space for cultural activities.
Attention is focused on a broad understanding of the mission of culture in the life of a modern person as the mastery of acquired experience, the individualization of world perception and the use of values formed in society. According to the historical-philosophical approach, culture is interpreted as the level of formation of society in the course of historical events, by using the creative capabilities of the individual; the result of which is observed in all spheres of human activity, in particular in the sphere of interpersonal relations during the use and formation of completely new material and spiritual values.
The pedagogical potential of culture as an interconnected system of cultural and historical events representing patterns and norms, ways of transferring accumulated experience for successful personal development of the individual for the benefit of society is considered. In this context, the didactic culture of a teacher of a higher military educational institution is updated as a component of pedagogical culture and professional culture, which enables high-quality implementation of pedagogical activities in various organizational and pedagogical conditions.
Innovación en la enseñanza de álgebra lineal en la educación superior: integración de tecnologías interactivas y enfoques didácticos
Authors: Ávila Guamán Luis Octavio , Briones Calvache José Oswaldo , Hidalgo Cajo Diego Patricio , Calderón Gutiérrez Joel Petter
Published: November 2024

La enseñanza del álgebra lineal en la educación superior enfrenta retos debido a su percepción como una materia abstracta y difícil de comprender. Para superar estas barreras, se ha buscado innovar pedagógicamente, incorporando tecnologías interactivas y enfoques didácticos centrados en la participación activa del estudiante. Herramientas como visualizaciones en tiempo real y aplicaciones de aprendizaje asistido permiten representar de manera accesible y dinámica conceptos abstractos, mejorando la comprensión y facilitando la conexión con aplicaciones prácticas. Asimismo, metodologías como el aprendizaje basado en problemas y el aprendizaje por descubrimiento favorecen un enfoque más activo, promoviendo el desarrollo de habilidades para la resolución de problemas.
La revisión sistemática de la literatura empleó la metodología PRISMA para evaluar el impacto de estas innovaciones en la enseñanza del álgebra lineal en el ámbito universitario. Los estudios revisados evidencian que las metodologías activas y las tecnologías interactivas incrementan la motivación y mejoran la retención de conceptos. Estas estrategias fomentan un aprendizaje más dinámico y colaborativo, donde los estudiantes no solo asimilan teoría, sino que también desarrollan habilidades prácticas esenciales. En conjunto, estas innovaciones ofrecen una oportunidad crucial para transformar la enseñanza de álgebra lineal, haciendo el aprendizaje más accesible y efectivo en contextos profesionales.
DARLING JAMES CORDEN IN PROPER REALITY TELEVISION – THE JOY OF CARPOOL KARAOKE
Authors: Giuffre Liz
Published: November 2024

British television fans need no convincing of James Corden’s smiley, shiny, naughty wonderful. From host to writer to actor to bloody nice singer and dancer, he’s annoying good at many showbizzy things (plus, he seems just annoyingly nice generally).

Gavin and Stacey

was when I really got to know him.
COMFORT TELLY 2: COLD FEET, THE CASE OF THE COMFORTING RESURRECTION
Authors: Nicholls Tom
Published: November 2024

Some of you may have read my previous blog on Comfort Telly, where I pondered if in the end the value of this type of TV Drama is in its actors and performances. (Granted, that the writing is central as well.) Last year ITV resurrected or rebooted their nineties success series

Cold Feet

(ITV, 1996 -) and with its return this week, I’ve been thinking back on series 6 or series 1 of the reboot.
What is a wicked problem?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

In 1973, Horst W.J. Rittel and Melvin M. Webber, two Berkeley professors, published an article in

Policy Sciences

introducing the notion of “wicked” social problems. The article, “Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning,” named 10 properties that distinguished wicked problems from hard but ordinary problems.

There is no definitive formulation of a wicked problem.
How do we learn from the network?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

When our organization’s hierarchy prohibits direct contact with the field, indirect and informal contact becomes more important than ever. Global and regional meetings, bilateral programmes, and various kinds of informal events provide opportunities for staying in touch.
CFP: 10th Screenwriting Network – Screenwriting: Fact and Fiction, Truth and the Real
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

In order to ensure timely notification and subsequent travel planning, please note the deadline: Abstracts for original paper presentations and panels may be submitted until November 22, 2016. The 10th Screenwriting Research Network (SRN) International Conference will be hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of Media, Film and Communication, in partnership with the New Zealand Writers Guild.
Mission accomplished
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

We won. The former school teacher and humanitarian trainer who argued vociferously that

nothing

would

ever

supplant face-to-face training is now running a MOOC. The training manager who refused to consider e-learning is now running a distance learning, scenario-based simulation.
NOTES FROM THE ARCHIVE: PYE, C.O. STANLEY AND THE HISTORY OF BRITISH TELEVISION
Authors: Rees Emily
Published: November 2024

The perfect set for every home I love going to archives. From my first visits, I knew that this was going to be the most exciting part of my research. As a researcher of television history, I initially expected to spend my time just at the BFI and the BBC Written Archive, but as my research veered towards the material history of the television set I had to be a little more creative.
FROM CHANGING CHANNELS TO LAUNCHING APPS: OBSERVATIONS ON THE SMART TV MARKET
Authors: Kelly JP
Published: November 2024

After many happy years basking in its warm, electronic glow, my once-reliable television set recently emitted its final diodes of light. An ominous dark patch in the upper left corner of the screen had been growing larger over the past year or so, like some slow but inevitable illness. It seemed to vary in its severity but on particularly bad days it had become difficult if not impossible to decipher what was happening in that area of the image.
The value of learning embedded in work
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Learning that is embedded into work resolves the dilemmas of (formal) learning that requires stopping work. What we learn as we work, we learn in order to apply, and such a learning process does not usually require dedicated resources.
Learning is in the network
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

“I knew them very well. That’s why it worked. Because we do work together.”

We take responsibility for our own learning, yet keenly aware of the value for learning of engaging with others. It is when we find ourselves alone or isolated that we may best perceive the value of connecting with others for learning.
ALL ABOARD SLOW TV: CAPTURING THE EXPERIENCE OF WALKING ON TV
Authors: Johnson Catherine
Published: November 2024

In April 2013 I walked the Pennine Way – a 268-mile trek from Edale in Derbyshire up the spine of England and into Kirk Yetholm in Scotland. Almost exactly two years later, on 24

th

April 2015 the Pennine Way reached its 50

th

anniversary as the first national trail in the UK. To celebrate, the BBC produced a four-part series about the trail hosted by Paul Rose.
SCHEDULING TELEVISION ON POST-TELEVISION PLATFORMS
Authors: Arnold Sarah
Published: November 2024

The Royal Television Society Huw Wheldon Memorial Lecture recently broadcast on BBC4 and titled ‘Public Service Broadcasting: A House of Cards?’  reflected on the changing landscape of broadcast television in light of developments in digital and internet technologies of content consumption.
INTO THE WOODS WITH JOHN YORKE: TELEVISION AND NARRATIVE STRUCTURES
Authors: Geraghty Christine
Published: November 2024

I quite often think of myself as an old-fashioned structuralist (as my 1981 essay on narrative and

Coronation Street

showed) and am quite embarrassed to think about the number of first year students I attempted to introduce to the wonders of Todorov.
UNVEILING ‘A’: CRITICAL FAN RESPONSES TO A TRANSGENDER VILLAINESS
Authors: Bingham W. Patrick
Published: November 2024

August 11, 2015 is the day

Pretty Little Liars

(2010-) unmasked ‘A’, a day five years in the making: (Spoiler) ‘A’ is CeCe Drake (Vanessa Ray) on

PLL

. I write about this reveal not just from a personal investment in the show or because it comprises a part of my PhD dissertation, but because of how the reveal divided the fandom and the popular entertainment news media.
GREEK NATIONAL BROADCASTER: JUGGLING BETWEEN “PUBLIC” AND “TELEVISION”
Authors: Serafeim Katerina
Published: November 2024

It’s been almost one year and a half since the abrupt closure of the Greek Public Broadcaster (ERT) and five months since the launch of the new official Public Broadcaster of Greece (NERIT), and the audience in Greece is still on a perpetual quest to find the true meaning of the role of Greek public television.
Flow
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

In our studies, we found that every flow activity, whether it involved competition, chance, or any other dimension of experience, had this in common: It provided a sense of discovery, a creative feeling of transporting the person into a new reality. It pushed the person to higher levels of performance, and led to previously undreamed-of states of consciousness. In short, it transformed the self by making it more complex.
A DEFENCE OF 13 REASONS WHY
Authors: Proctor William
Published: November 2024

As the media firestorm surrounding the Netflix TV series

13 Reasons Why

continues apace, I have become increasingly concerned by several vaunted claims made by commentators in relation to the potential effects of the programme’s depiction of suicide.
Opening workplace learning
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

For organizations, the paradigm of workplace learning remains focused on internal development of staff, on the premise that staff need to be learning to improve, if only to keep their knowledge and competencies current. In the past, education advocates struggled to gain recognition for the need to continually learn in the workplace.
SCHEDULING TELEVISION ON POST-TELEVISION PLATFORMS
Authors: Arnold Sarah
Published: November 2024

The Royal Television Society Huw Wheldon Memorial Lecture recently broadcast on BBC4 and titled ‘Public Service Broadcasting: A House of Cards?’ reflected on the changing landscape of broadcast television in light of developments in digital and internet technologies of content consumption.
Media and Fear – International Symposium, Lund University, Sweden, March 16th 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Department of Communication and Media,

March 16th 2017

Organisers: Annette Hill, Michael Rübsamen, Tina Askanius and Zaki Habibi Fear is a key factor in today’s media landscape. A dynamics of fear frequently frames the news about the environment or immigration, it dominates discourses of security and surveillance, and it permeates people’s lived experiences in precarious times.
CROSSOVERS AND COLLABORATIONS: PRODUCTION DESIGN IN A LEGACY AND THE DRESSER ARRIVES ON TELEVISION
Authors: Geraghty Christine
Published: November 2024

Television scholars of my generation tend to have a reflex towards medium specificity, a desire to establish what it was about television that made it television. That was useful in the days when we were trying to emerge from a range of disciplines which informed our work – sociology, drama, history and English for example as well as a nascent and equally trenchant film studies.
EUROPEAN ELECTIONS 2014: GREEK TELEVISION “DEFINED” THE NEW REPRESENTATIVES OF GREECE IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
Authors: Serafeim Katerina
Published: November 2024

Since 1981 when Greece became an official member of the EEC (what would later become the European Union), the country has been represented in the European Parliament by many remarkable personalities deriving from the fields of politics, literature, science;  in other words a group of people that is commonly referred to as the Greek intelligentsia.
Who are we and why are we talking?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

As learning leaders, we share a personal passion and commitment to solving wicked problems. We recognize that no one organization can solve these problems alone. We use our talent to advocate for new ways of doing new things, both inside and outside our structures. We see continual learning as the key to preparedness in a hyper-connected VUCA world.
CFP: The NECS 2017 Conference – SENSIBILITY AND THE SENSES -Media, Bodies, Practices
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

The NECS 2017 Conference SENSIBILITY AND THE SENSES Media, Bodies, Practices Paris, France 29 June to 01 July 2017 Hosted by the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 Pre-Conference 27 and 28 June 2017 Hosted by the Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 Keynote presentations Centre Pompidou Grand Amphithéâtre de la Sorbonne

Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2017

Please note that the membership fee must be paid before submission
THE ADVENT OF THE TV BLOCKBUSTER
Authors: Brown Simon
Published: November 2024

As March wore on and the end of term approached, I was preparing a ‘taster’ teaching session for an upcoming post-applicant day. This is an open day for prospective university students who have already applied and been offered a place. The aim is to give them a flavour of what the teaching on the course will be like, and so staff like myself offer an hour long seminar.
BBC3 HAS MOVED ONLINE
Authors: Holland Pat
Published: November 2024

So what was special about Monday 15

th

February (apart from being the day after Valentines day)?   Answer: it was the last day that BBC 3 was on air.   From Tuesday 16

th

the channel was only available online.
The Law of Halves
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

How many people do you need to recruit ten thousand learners? The preliminary questions are: is there an established network of learners? This requires that learners are connected to each other, and not simply end nodes in a pyramidal structure. And, do you have access to the network? These questions may be answered empirically. Publish your course. Build it and they may come – through the network.
CfP: “To Each Their Own Pop. Music, Cinema and Television in Italy in the Period of the Youth Movements (1960-1979)” Oct 23, 2017 @Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. Deadline: July 31, 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

We are pleased to call for participation in the third “Italian Way to Pop” one-day symposium, to be held October 23, 2017 at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.
Formal learning of the past
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Formal learning

in the past

includes formal education and qualifications obtained. They serve as credentials of value to establish that

we know

– part of building relationships of trust – and provide frameworks of reference (“shelves”) to make sense of new knowledge.
THE NAUGHTY, THE BLASPHEMOUS, AND AMERICAN TELEVISION
Authors: Lavery David
Published: November 2024

(First Published on 14 December 2012) Back in January America was all abuzz with the largely-media-created controversy over whether or not the quintessentially British Ricky Gervais had gone too far with his humor as host of the 2011 Golden Globe Awards. What can be got away with on the public airways has been a significant question from the beginnings of American television.
24 HOURS IN A&E AND THE NHS CRISIS: THE PLEASURES AND POLITICS OF UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE TV
Authors: Bull Sofia
Published: November 2024

I have watched pretty much every episode of the medical reality show

24 Hours in A&E

(Channel 4, 2011–). Even though much of my research happens to focus on medico-scientific discourses in contemporary television, this is a programme I have watched for pure pleasure.
I WAS JONATHAN CREEK’S DOUBLE: MY SECRET LIFE AS A PRACTITIONER
Authors: Hewett Richard
Published: November 2024

It’s that time of year again. Marks have all been ratified, and the students have packed their bags and returned to families doubtless anxious to feed them up and process weeks of laundry. Many are gearing up for their graduation ceremonies (our own will be taking place around the time this goes to press), before heading out into the world to seek their fortunes. It is for us, and them, a time of reflection.
THE CANCELLATION OF DEFIANCE AND ‘INVISIBLE CULT TV’
Authors: Garner Ross
Published: November 2024

Defiance

(2013-15) was an original commission science-fiction TV series which has aired on the SyFy channel in both the US and the UK. Set on Earth in the near-future after a war between humans and immigrant aliens who arrived to settle on the planet, and whose technology has greatly changed Earth’s physical and biological environment through a process named as ‘terraforming’, the show was premised around exploring the interactions
WHAT ACTORS DO: CHARLES DANCE IN GAME OF THRONES
Authors: Knox Gary Cassidy and Simone
Published: November 2024

‘You Win or You Die’, the seventh episode from the first season of

Game of Thrones

(HBO, 2011-present), contains a scene that has deservedly gathered attention and acclaim.
CfP: “Media Mutations 10 – The ‘-tainment’ Effect”. May 21-22, 2018 @ Università di Bologna. Deadline: Dec 15, 2017.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Media Mutations, the international conference of studies on audiovisual media hosted by Dipartimento delle Arti of Università di Bologna, comes to its tenth edition.
ODE TO ADAM AND JOE
Authors: Hewett Richard
Published: November 2024

A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, Friday nights were (all too briefly) enlivened by a pair of young scamps with a penchant for critiquing popular culture, whether mounting toy-based parodies of contemporary film and television, utilising

Star Wars

figurines to skewer trash TV formats, or dispensing Vinyl Justice to the mad, bad and (occasionally) dangerous of rock ‘n’ pop.
CFP: The children’s ’68: online journal of children’s literature and culture
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

The children’s ’68: call for papers https://children68.hypotheses.org/ This call for papers invites proposals for contributions to a special issue of the online journal of children’s literature and culture Strenae entitled ‘The Children’s ’68’, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of May ‘68. This special issue is part of the work of the international research network The children’s ‘68, led by Dr Sophie Heywood at the University of
RESURRECTED VISIONS ON YOUTUBE: THE LARGE DOOR CHANNEL
Authors: Ellis John
Published: November 2024

Easter being the time of resurrection, I spent part of the break uploading to YouTube some of the programmes I produced for Channel 4 in the 1980s and 1990s. So there is now a Large Door channelfor our moribund independent production company, with a selection from the hundred or so programmes we produced.
Call for contributions “Transgender Representation on Television” (Edited Collection, working title). Deadline: Sept 29, 2017.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Editors: Dr. Liora Elias (University of Minnesota, USA); Dr. Raechel Tiffe (Independent Scholar) Info for abstracts: Deadline September 29th; 250 word abstract – include name, title and affiliation

Project:

The last decade has brought changes for transgender people both on and off television.
Operational Board
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Kim Akass, Managing Editor

CSTonline

Christine Geraghty, Book Review Editor-in-Chief Simone Knox, ECREA Editor Stephen Lacey, ManagingEditor Janet McCabe, Managing Editor Elke Weissmann, ECREA Editor
CfP: “Ends of Cinema” May 3-5, 2018 @ University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (USA). Deadline: Jan 09, 2018.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

The Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee invites proposals for papers and presentations for our Ends of Cinema conference, to be held May 3-5, 2018.
Online learning 101: Criteria to distinguish approaches
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

The table below summarizes criteria that you should consider to identify the appropriate approach for your online learning needs.
Wishful thinking cannot fix broken tools
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

“Continuous learning at the individual level is necessary but not sufficient to influence perceived changes in [performance]. […] Learning must be captured and embedded in ongoing systems, practices, and structures so that it can be shared and regularly used to intentionally improve changes in [performance]” (Marsick and Watkins 2003:134).

“I still can’t find it. And I still need to work on it. It’s a mess.”

“That’s a
Autopsy
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Knowledge management has met its timely demise. No matter how sophisticated or agile, knowledge management (or “KM”)  remains fundamentally embedded in a container view of knowledge.
One size does not fit all
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

How does an organization’s leaders recognize, encourage, and reward both existing learning practices and positive change in learning behaviors that foster informal and incidental learning?
THE WOMAN BEHIND GOGGLEBOX: AN INTERVIEW WITH TANIA ALEXANDER 3
Authors: Marghitu Stefania
Published: November 2024

*This interview was edited for clarity.  It was conducted via phone with e-mail followups. Did you always know you wanted the content that the

Gogglebox

cast watched to be varied, that mixture of everything from nature shows to the news to party political broadcasts? Yeah, I try each week to include a good mix of drama, documentary, entertainment and news.
CfP – DEADLINE EXTENDED! ECREA Television Studies Conference 2017: The Future of European Television: Between Transnationalism and Euroscepticism, Nov 15-17, 2017, Málaga
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 7 JULY 2017 ECREA Television Studies Conference 2017 The Future of European Television: Between Transnationalism and Euroscepticism From 15-11-2017 To 17-11-2017 Facultad de ciencias de la Comunicación Málaga Organized by the ECREA Television Studies section and the University of Málaga (Spain), in collaboration with “Production and circulation of media contents” section of […]
COME WITH US TO THE GREATEST MUSIC FESTIVAL IN THE WORLD: GLASTONBURY AS MEDIA EVENT
Authors: Plowman Alec
Published: November 2024

Like many music fans, I spent the last weekend of June glued to the box, watching the BBC’s extensive coverage of Glastonbury. Actually, to call their coverage ‘extensive’ is something of an understatement. Over four days, the Beeb broadcast more than 250 hours of live music performances across television, radio, red button and online services. In excess of 100 acts were filmed exclusively for the corporation.
VHS RIP
Authors: Mills Brett
Published: November 2024

Is VHS essential to the study of television? This is a debate I’m currently engaged in with the institution I work for which desires to ‘upgrade’ the audio-visual facilities in teaching rooms and sees the removal of VHS as part of this. This upgrade would result in all rooms having DVD and Blu-ray players, but video would be gone;
Should we trust our intuition and instinct when we learn?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

How much of what we learn is through informal and incidental learning? When asked to reflect on where we learned (and continue to learn) what we need to do our work, we collectively come to an even split between our formal qualifications, our peers, and experience. As interaction with peers is gained in the workplace, roughly two-thirds of our capabilities can be attributed to learning

in

work.
THE GOD PARTICLES OF EYE TRACKING
Authors: Redmond Sean
Published: November 2024

(A re-introduction to the Eye tracking the Moving Image Research Group)

I have a painterly confession to make. When I saw eye tracking visualisations for the first time they flooded me with affecting impressions.
TV & SOCIAL MEDIA: INSIDE/OUTSIDE TELEVISION PRODUCTION
Authors: Bennett James
Published: November 2024

’ve spent what little time I’ve had recently on the ADAPT TV History project trawling through the BBC Internet blog on topics to do with innovation and social media (I say what little time I have, as for heads of department like me, time is increasingly dominated by TEF (let alone REF), consumer compliance law and our new duties to prevent studies from being ‘drawn into terrorism’). In any case, this has hampered my ability
PUTTING THE ACCENT ON TV: POOR PROJECTION, DODGY DICTION AND RIP RP
Authors: Hewett Richard
Published: November 2024

In light of the recent furore regarding

Jamaica Inn

(BBC, 2014), this week’s piece takes a look at – or a listen to? – the actor’s voice on television, and how its production and delivery has altered over the years. For those who missed it at Easter, the BBC’s adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s novel was roundly criticised by press and public alike for the unintelligibility of its cast;
FROM RAMSAY STREET, WITH LOVE
Authors: Giuffre Liz
Published: November 2024

Dear Britain, On behalf of Australia, I’m really sorry about Neighbours. Honestly, we had no idea that a little soapie based in a fictional place outside Melbourne would go for so long.
TEACHING TELEVISION: FEMINISM, FOCUS AND ME
Authors: Akass Kim
Published: November 2024

Forgive me if I am wrong, but I had thought that Higher Education was for adults, albeit young ones. On the pages of CSTonline we have, from time to time, talked about the problem of teaching TV Studies at University.
New learning for radiation emergency medical preparedness and assistance
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

My presentation for the Geneva Learning Foundation at the 15th meeting of the WHO Radiation Emergency Medical Preparedness and Assistance Network (REMPAN), World Health Organization, Geneva – 3-5 July 2017.
The wonderful world of the (Australian) web series
Authors: Turnbull Sue
Published: November 2024

Here’s the pitch. Game of Thrones meets Mad Max in a post-apocalyptic wilderness somewhere North of Adelaide where a giant panda is on a lonely quest to atone for his wrongs to humanity.
Practice practice practice
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Is there any evidence that university-based continued professional development (CPD) fails when trying to develop competencies needed by humanitarian and development professionals? Or, to reframe the question, are traditional brick-and-mortar universities best equipped to support the lifelong learning journeys of people committed to this line of work?
A WOMAN’S WOMAN. ‘MUTUAL MUSES’ IN JESSICA JONES AND HAPPY VALLEY
Authors: Longden Kenneth
Published: November 2024

Netflix’s Jessica Jones and the BBC’s Happy Valley, on the surface, may seem to provide different viewing experiences, yet they share certain distinctions beyond the obvious element of both series depicting leading female detective/crime-solving characters.
Being mentored
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Mentor

was the name of the adviser of the young Telemachus in Homer’s

Odyssey

. A mentor is an experienced and trusted advisor. In the workplace, mentoring usually involves providing counsel to colleagues. Mentoring relationships may be purely informal one-offs or imply a deeper investment for both mentor and mentee. For mentoring relationships to deepen and become sustainable requires mutual identification and recognition.
2015 – A TV ODYSSEY
Authors: Weissmann Elke
Published: November 2024

I am on a big search – and it will be a long and protracted search – for a new meaning. Not of life (well, that as well, but that’ll last even longer), but of what it means to watch television. Yes, I have discovered doubt: I no longer trust my old instincts. And so I will spend 2015 – this is at least one of my new year’s resolutions – on thinking through what it means to watch television today.
FOR THE LOVE OF ‘FOR THE LOVE OF CARS’
Authors: Brown Simon
Published: November 2024

“Fire up the Mexico” Philip Glenister presents For the Love of Cars I first became interested in cars when I was four. That year my father got his first company car, an Austin Maxi.
THE GLANCE INTERRUPTED
Authors: Baluch Jamila
Published: November 2024

When it comes to television, I have always been a ‘glancer’ rather than a ‘gazer’. Born somewhere between Generation X and Generation Y, I grew up with what is now commonly referred to as ‘traditional’ television. As a child, much of my television consumption served as accompaniment: I remember drawing pictures or setting up my toys in the living room, so I could enjoy the pleasant flow of television programmes.
Insomnia against the grain – and putting Bloom to bed
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Summer 2016, Day 1. “So, that puts to bed Bloom’s Taxonomy… that reliable workhorse,” sighed C. “What do we use in its place?” “We don’t”, answered the Walrus. “There is no successor to neatly replace Bloom’s. It’s still there – and can still be useful.
Inventing by investing in new business models for humanitarian training
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Through research and broad sector collaboration, a consensus has emerged on the recognition that uneven quality of personnel is a major limiting factor in humanitarian response, and that serious effort is needed to address the global gap in skills and build capacity of countries and local communities.
Elements of a learning dashboard
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

“What is clear is that a learning rich culture will emphasize informal learning and more open learning designs rather than relying only on formal training approaches. The learning infrastructure consists of all of the formal, informal, and incidental activities, systems, and policies that promote individual, team, and organizational learning and knowledge creation.” Source: Watkins, K., 2013. Building a Learning Dashboard. The HR Review 16–21.
Meeting of the minds
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

This is my presentation for the Geneva Learning Foundation, first made at the Swiss Knowledge Management Forum (SKMF) round table held on 8 September 2016 at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Its title is “Meeting of the minds: Rethinking our assumptions about the superiority of face-to-face encounters.” It is an exploration of the impact of rapid change that encompasses learning at scale, the
No Trouble in Paradise
Authors: Lealand Geoff
Published: November 2024

Summer in New Zealand has been particularly crap so far this year (storms and flooding), so my beloved and I had to travel to the Pacific Island nation of Samoa, in search of sun, some four hours on a plane heading north into the Pacific. I also had another purpose: a significant birthday fell on January 9

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and I wanted to be Where Nobody Knew My Name.
WHAT’S IN A BURP? THERAPEUTIC GROSS-OUT HUMOUR IN UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT
Authors: Havas Julia
Published: November 2024

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015-) is a Netflix comedy produced by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, and follows the life of 29-year old Kimmy Schmidt (Ellie Kemper) in New York City after her rescue from an underground cult.
Convergence and cross-fertilisation between publishing and learning: an interview with Toby Green and Reda Sadki
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

By John Helmer We’re in a world where people don’t really understand what they want until you put it in front of them,’ says Toby Green Head of Publishing at OECD. He’s talking about the challenge of creating new digital products in a technology landscape that is changing very quickly (with no end to the ‘technology treadmill’ in sight) and where market research is of limited value;
AGENTS OF SHIELD: AGENCY, INSTITUTIONS AND TRANSMEDIA SERIALISATION
Authors: Oldham Joseph
Published: November 2024

Over the last few years I have been loosely following the unfolding project known as the ‘Marvel Cinematic Universe’ (beginning with

Iron Man

, 2008) with a degree of interest, albeit that of a cinema-going layperson with little knowledge of comics or superheroes.
A Study in Sherlock: Considering Season 4
Authors: Smith Frances
Published: November 2024

The latest season of Sherlock concluded on January 15th in its unfortunately characteristic vein of ill-conceived pyrotechnics, scarcely-credible plot lines and levels of reality that test the patience of its viewers.
CfP: “At home with horror? Terror on the small screen” Oct 27-28, 2017 @ University of Kent. Deadline: June 30, 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

The Melodrama Research Group presents:

At home with horror? Terror on the small screen

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October 2017, University of Kent

Keynote speaker: Dr Helen Wheatley (University of Warwick)
Call for edited book chapters: Gender & Horror
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

We are inviting chapter submissions for a new edited collection focusing on gender and horror. This edited collection aims to re-examine horror in an era of remakes, reboots and re-imaginings.
HAVE A GREAT LONDON WEEKEND – WATCHING TELEVISION IN ONE CITY WITH TWO ITVs
Authors: Smart Billy
Published: November 2024

One of the great pleasures and challenges of conference organisation is putting interesting and complimentary panels together from the abstracts you receive. Planning that you put into this always pays off in the end, looking at each proposal from several different perspectives, working out the different ways that it could fit in with other papers.
CFP: The Evolving Landscape of Entertainment TV in China: A 20-Year Review, 11th April 2017, University of East Anglia, Norwich
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

2017 UK-China Media and Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference

The television industry in China has experienced a process of marketisation, diversification, de-ideologisation, and entertainmentisation ever since media reforms of the late 1970s.
Experience and blended learning: two heads of the humanitarian training chimera
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Experience is the best teacher, we say.
THE DOCTOR AND THE PROFESSOR
Authors: Harmes Marcus
Published: November 2024

‘Remember the Red Indian. When he saw the first steam train, his savage mind thought it an illusion, too.’ Thus begins

Doctor Who

in 1963 when two teachers Ian and Barbara enter a police box and swiftly find themselves patronised by an alien time traveller, the Doctor.
ON NOT WATCHING TELLY…THIS TIME
Authors: Weissmann Elke
Published: November 2024

Let me come out, here, once and for all. I actually like international football. It’s interesting in a jokey kind of way. There’s some skill involved, and a good goal can take your breath away. I also like it because for most of the time it’s dead boring and you can talk to your mates.
BACK IN COLOMBIA, BACK TO LATIN AMERICAN TELEVISION
Authors: Miller Toby
Published: November 2024

I’m in Colombia, doing some research on a plaque unveiled by Prince Charles in Cartagena two years ago that briefly commemorated a British fleet trying to starve the inhabitants into submission and make the United Kingdom an occupying power in South America. The plaque lasted just a few hours before being “transformed” by an activist engineer, then removed by the municipal government, following mass Twitter protests.
METICULOUS WORLD-BUILDING IN SPACE: THE EXPANSE, AND THE CURRENT RESURGENCE OF SCIENCE FICTION ON TV
Authors: Steiner Tobias
Published: November 2024

It’s been one of those days. The Christmas holidays had been lurking around the corner, and finally I had some free time on my hands, between the formal end of the academic calendar of 2015, and the big celebration rush that we tend to throw ourselves into, meeting up with family and long-time friends.Free time – priceless. And somewhere, somehow, I had come across an announcement that a new SciFi show would be airing on SyFy;
PROBLEMS WITH QUALITY
Authors: Weissmann Elke
Published: November 2024

In 1990, Charlotte Brunsdon wrote an article entitled ‘Problems with Quality’. It examined British television’s claims to quality and investigated in particular how specific genres and aesthetics were claimed by a number of commentators, including politicians, critics and academics, and professionals as ‘quality’. It sparked a particular, British debate about what quality might mean at a time that by others was perceived as a period of
Dinosaur
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

“You’ll become a dinosaur if you don’t learn.”

People in the organization recognize the need for change, see its value, see their own roles in the process, are willing to adopt new approaches, and possess the competence to move forward with change: At the individual level, we strive to consider each task, however mundane, as an opportunity to learn.
DEAR SAJID JAVID
Authors: Miller Toby
Published: November 2024

Dear Sajid Javid Please accept this column as my application to become the next Chair of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Trust. I know the monarch ultimately makes such decisions, but between you and me, I believe you have a part to play. I am a straightish, whiteish, maleish subject, so I come from the kind of background that has been favored in the past for such jobs.
THE VCR AND THE TIVO BOX – RECLAIMING TECHNOLOGY
Authors: Geraghty Christine
Published: November 2024

Video Playtime

, Ann Gray’s account of the domestic use of the VCR in the 1980s, was one of the great cultural studies accounts to come out of early television studies. In describing and analysing ‘the gendering of a leisure technology’, Gray gave space for her respondents’ accounts of their changed viewing habits and analysed them sympathetically and shrewdly.
WORKING OURSELVES TO DEATH: DISCOURSES OF ATTACHMENT AND OVERWORK IN THE ECONOMY OF ACADEMIC LABOUR
Authors: Johnson Catherine
Published: November 2024

One of my new year’s resolutions this year is to improve my work-life balance. It is with some irony, then, that I find myself finishing this blog on the second Sunday in January, particularly considering that I started writing it during my annual leave over the Christmas vacation.
REMEMBERING TELEVISION DRAMA
Authors: Geraghty Christine
Published: November 2024

Remembering television drama: ‘Television Drama: the Forgotten, the Lost and the Neglected’ Conference, April, 2015

Despite the tendency in television studies to emphasise the contemporary, British television studies has recently seen a number of AHRC-supported projects which have been exploring
WHERE DO I POINT THIS THING?
Authors: Lealand Geoff
Published: November 2024

I guess we have all had the experience of pointing a remote device at the wrong point of focus, and wondered why nothing was appearing on the screen. Or having sat on the TV remote accidentally, to create mayhem on the screen. That might be the only times we have become more aware of our dependence on the remote.
Lessons learned from Ebola
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

This is the first in a series of five blog posts reflecting on what is at stake in how we learn lessons from the Ebola crisis that erupted in 2014 and continued in 2015.
WERE TELEVISION COMEDIANS TO BLAME FOR TRUMP’S ELECTION?
Authors: Giuffre Liz
Published: November 2024

When comedian Jimmy Fallon ruffled Donald Trump’s hair during an interview on

The Tonight Show

in the final weeks of the American election campaign, the internet exploded.
HMMMM HANNIBAL …
Authors: Abbott Stacey
Published: November 2024

In deciding what to blog about this week, I was met by a confluence of events.
WIKILEAKS AND THE T.V. SET
Authors: Miller Toby
Published: November 2024

I don’t have much time for WikiLeaks or its narcissist-in-chief. Anyone surprised by their revelations (consider, you know, the history of the US government domestically and internationally since, oh, 1776) or his conduct (q.v. Julian Assange v. Swedish Prosecution Authority) is naive in the extreme.
SHUTTING UP SHOP: BYE-BYE, BBC STORE
Authors: Hewett Richard
Published: November 2024

I said it wouldn’t work, didn’t I?

Yes, friends, after less than two years in operation, the BBC Store is shutting up shop, having admitted defeat ‘in the face of streaming service rivals’. Way back in November 2015 I blogged about the Store’s launch (I like to keep things current), when Auntie Beeb was proudly trumpeting the fact that over 7,000 hours of content, old and new, would be made available to purchase and view via
IT’S NOT GHOSTS … IT’S HISTORY: THE SONIC QUALITIES OF BRITISH SUPERNATURAL TELEVISION
Authors: Fryers Mark
Published: November 2024

British history is full of strange and disturbing noises. They rebound and echo, providing a constant reminder to future generations of the violent noises of the past- signalling colonial atrocities, and the stifled disenfranchised voices of class and gender inequalities.
REGISTRATION CLOSING – Game of Thrones: An International Conference University of Hertfordshire, De Havilland Campus, 6-7 September 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Co-organised by the Media Research Group of the Schools of Creative Arts and Humanities REGISTRATION NOW OPEN:  http://store.herts.ac.uk/conferences-events/conferences-events/conferences/creative-arts/game-of-thrones-an-international-conference The University is in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, which 25 minutes, by train, from central London.
ELECTION DRAMA 1974 AND 2015 – THE POLLING BOOTH ON THE TELEVISION SCREEN
Authors: Geraghty Christine
Published: November 2024

In the month before the UK General Election on 7

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May, the BFI Mediatheques put together a selection of television programmes which featured elections and voting. We are used to examining how elections are handled on television but unusually this selection included drama and I found myself watching Jack Rosenthal ‘s

Mr.Ellis Versus The People

from 1974, a year in which there were indeed two general elections.
Thick knowledge
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Toby Mundy on books as thick knowledge:

“[…] Books have a unique place in our civilisation […] because they are the only medium for thick descriptions of the world that human beings possess. By ‘thick’ description, I mean an extended, detailed, evidence-based, written interpretation of a subject. If you want to write a feature or blog or wikipedia entry, be it about the origins of the first world war; the authoritarian turn in Russia;
ROADS NOT TAKEN
Authors: Hewett Richard
Published: November 2024

Cast your minds back, if you will, to the year 2010, when the BBC was poised to launch a brand new detective on our screens. Dark and tousle-haired, his deductive powers would prove a constant source of amazement to his more grounded partner (and the viewing audience), while causing the local constabulary no small amount of irritation.
DÉJÀ VIEW: REMAKES, REBOOTS, AND THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION
Authors: Howard Doug
Published: November 2024

So here’s a list of show titles for you: The X-Files, Twin Peaks, Prison Break, The A-Team, Hart to Hart, Gilmore Girls, Star Trek, Full House, and Magyver.  Looking at it, you might think that this was a catalog of DVD box sets or, perhaps, the line-up for another one of those cable channels devoted entirely to reruns.
STORYWORLDS, TRANSFICTION, AND TV HISTORIES: SHERLOCK, AND THE ABOMINABLE BRIDE
Authors: Longden Kenneth
Published: November 2024

Long before the end of Christmas television viewing and schedules, broadcasters and production companies herald their new season of television viewing. It is part of that tradition where we say goodbye to the old year, and welcome in the new, and it is yet another example of how television has ingratiated itself into the rhythms of everyday life and the cultural rituals of a nation.
FILMING FILMERS FILMING: THE ADAPT PROJECT REUNITES BBC EALING CREW MEMBERS
Authors: Ellis John
Published: November 2024

Couple of weeks ago, the ADAPT project, researching the use of technologies in television, undertook an ambitious three day shoot reuniting members of BBC Ealing’s legendary Film Unit with the 16mm equipment they used to use. I lead the project which is funded by the European Research Council from 2013 to 2018.