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Title [sv]
Televisionens tider
Title [en]
The Times of Television
Abstract [sv]
Syftet med detta projekt är att granska televisionens historiegrafi. Under det senaste decenniet har västerlandets television blivit allt mer upptagen med skildringar av historia. Televisionens inverkan på det kollektiva minnet är numera också erkänd. Samtidigt är medievetenskapen relativt outvecklad vad gäller frågor om mediets representation av det förflutna (”historia på TV”), och specifika kronosofi (TVs sätt ”att skriva historia”). Detta projekt urskiljer tre tidsformer, vars interna samspel antas vara avgörande för televisionens anspråk som historieförmedlare:Krönikans tid - som i televisionens organiserande av kronologiska flöden av historisk tid, genom dokumentärer, fiktionsserier, årskrönikor, etc. Katastrofens tid - som i de drastiska avbrott, då direktsändningen ställer oss inför historiens referent som katastrof, kris, död (attacken mot WTC, tsunamin, etc).Ritualens tid - som i mediehändelsernas ceremoniella television, då televisionen bidrar till iscensättningen av historiska milstolpar (olympiska spel, presidentval, rymdfärder, etc) De tre formerna studeras i tre fallstudier av samtida television, som särskilt vill beakta hur televisionens tideräkning synkroniseras i transnationella medborgarskap, med relevans för relationen mellan USA och Europa. Den första avser CNNs dokumentärserie ”The Cold War”, den andra televisionens åminnelser av attackerna mot World Trade Center, den tredje rapportering kring valet av Barack Obama.
Abstract [en]
During the last decade, television has become increasingly occupied with the representation of history (Bell 2007). The medium's influence on collective memory is by now well recognized (Volkmer 2006). This development raises urgent questions: how does television represent the past? How may these representations be distinguished from traditional historiography, or the narratives of film and literature? Such questions pose a challenge for media studies, where television mainly has been identified with an ahistorical temporality, one that produces “forgetfulness, not memory, flow, not history” (Heath, 1990). The Times of Television is a research project that aims to explore the different ways in which television may portray what happened (”history on television”), as well as the different temporalities in its mode of presentation (“television as historian”). Specifically, it will seek to describe three temporal forms: the time of the chronicle, in which television organizes successive flows of historical time through documentaries, fictional series, annual chronicles, etc; the time of catastrophe, as in live broadcasts of traumatic events, where history is represented as catastrophe, crisis, disaster, i.e. as breaks in the flow of successive time (cf. Doane 1990); the time of ritual, as in the televised, pre-planned ceremonial events (olympic games, elections, installations, etc, cf. Dayan & Katz 1992), that invite audiences to witness history in the making. The general hypothesis is that these three forms and their interrelations are fundamental for understanding how current television represents history.
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Ericson, S. (2016). Oväder: Televisionens för- och efterhistoria. In: Johan Hegardt & Trond Lundemo (Ed.), Historiens hemvist III: Minne, medier och materialitet (pp. 77-106). Göteborg: Makadam Förlag
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Oväder: Televisionens för- och efterhistoria
2016 (Swedish)In: Historiens hemvist III: Minne, medier och materialitet / [ed] Johan Hegardt & Trond Lundemo, Göteborg: Makadam Förlag, 2016, p. 77-106Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Göteborg: Makadam Förlag, 2016
National Category
Media and Communications
Research subject
Critical and Cultural Theory
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-31911 (URN)9789170612022 (ISBN)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P09-0623:1Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, M09-0158:1
Available from: 2017-01-31 Created: 2017-01-31 Last updated: 2025-10-07Bibliographically approved
Lagerkvist, A. (2014). 9:11 in Sweden: Commemoration at Electronic Sites of Memory. Television and New Media, 15(4), 350-370
Open this publication in new window or tab >>9:11 in Sweden: Commemoration at Electronic Sites of Memory
2014 (English)In: Television and New Media, ISSN 1527-4764, E-ISSN 1552-8316, Vol. 15, no 4, p. 350-370Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

During the ten years that have passed since the mediated terrorist attacks in the United States on 9.11, 2001, they have become—through instant historicization as well as endless repetitions—stable points of reference for transnational collective memory. Focalizing the anniversaries of September 11, 2002 and 2011, on Swedish television, this article pursues how the medium annually commemorates the tragedy. Fusing television research with memory studies, the argument is that we may approach the anniversaries as an electronic “lieu de mémorie”: a material-symbolic space reappropriated annually as media become vehicles for “working through” in commemoration, mourning, debate, and critique. Despite the fragmentation of both television and collective memory in the context of digitalization, on the anniversaries, Swedish television promotes itself as a central “nucleus” for connectivity offering viewers a return to the traumatic site—to the television set—while interpellating them as a “global we,” of media witnesses.

Keywords
transnational collective memory, lieux de mémoire, September 11, catastrophe, witnessing, television, anniversary journalism
National Category
Media and Communications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-23442 (URN)10.1177/1527476412457996 (DOI)000333980100006 ()2-s2.0-84899534499 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P09-0623:1
Available from: 2014-05-15 Created: 2014-05-15 Last updated: 2025-10-07Bibliographically approved
Ericson, S. (2013). Media and Maelströms. Site (33), 213-223
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Media and Maelströms
2013 (Swedish)In: Site, ISSN 1650-7894, no 33, p. 213-223Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
National Category
Media and Communications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-27390 (URN)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P09-0623:1Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, M09-0158:1-E
Available from: 2015-05-07 Created: 2015-05-07 Last updated: 2025-10-07Bibliographically approved
Ericson, S. (2011). The Times of Television: Representing, Anticipating, Forgetting the Cold War. In: Hans Ruin, Andrus Ers (Ed.), Rethinking Time: Essays on History, Memory, and Representation (pp. 139-152). Huddinge: Södertörns högskola
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The Times of Television: Representing, Anticipating, Forgetting the Cold War
2011 (English)In: Rethinking Time: Essays on History, Memory, and Representation / [ed] Hans Ruin, Andrus Ers, Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2011, p. 139-152Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2011
Series
Södertörn Philosophical Studies, ISSN 1651-6834 ; 9
National Category
Media and Communications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-14911 (URN)978-91-86069-32-2 (ISBN)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P09-0623:1Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, M09-0158:1-E
Available from: 2012-01-24 Created: 2012-01-24 Last updated: 2025-10-07Bibliographically approved
Co-InvestigatorLagerkvist, Amanda
Principal InvestigatorEricson, Staffan
Co-InvestigatorAchter, Paul
Coordinating organisation
Södertörn University
Funder
Period
2010-01-01 - 2014-12-31
Identifiers
DiVA, id: project:1771Project, id: P09-0623:1-E_RJ

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