RLCS, Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, 73 – Pages 870 to 894 [Research] | DOI:10.4185/RLCS-2018-1286en | ISSN 1138-5820 | Year 2018 How to cite this article in bibliographies / References M Caridad Sebastián, AM Morales García, S Martínez Cardama, F García López (2018): “The television archives: strategies to showcase their value in the transmedia age”. Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, 73, pp. 870 to 894 http://www.revistalatinacs.org/073paper/1286/45en.html DOI: 10.4185/RLCS-2018-1286en
The television archives: strategies to showcase their value in the transmedia age Mercedes Caridad Sebastián [CV] [ORCID] [GS]. Senior Lecturer. Department of Library and Information Sciences. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid / Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain) – mercedes@bib.uc3m.es Ana María Morales García [CV] [ORCID] [GS]. Associate Professor. Department of Library and Information Sciences. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid / Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain)amorales@bib.uc3m.es Sara Martínez Cardama [CV] [ORCID] [GS]. Assistant Professor. Department of Library and Information Sciences. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid / Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain) smarti1@bib.uc3m.es Fátima García López [CV] [ORCID] [GS]. Visiting Professor. Department of Library and Information Sciences. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid / Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain) fatimag@bib.uc3m.es Abstract Introduction: This article analyses the different transmedia strategies that European television archives can potentially use to showcase and promote their collections. Methods: The study is based on the case study of four European television archives that follow different models of conservation and access: The British Broadcasting Corporation Archives (BBC, United Kingdom), the Institut National de l’audiovisuel (France), the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Netherlands) and the RTVE Archive (Spain). Information was collected from the websites and Twitter accounts of these archives and subsequently analysed using three evaluation categories: Expanded Access, Repackaged Content and Ancillary Content. Results: It was concluded that the most frequent strategies were those related to expanded access, particularly with a contextual purpose: commemorations, anniversaries and to illustrate recent events with images from the past. Discussion: Many transmedia strategies are not being implemented by some of the selected television archives. Conclusions: Unlike other cultural
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