Open AccessConvergent Cultures
Author(s) -
Bas Agterberg
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2213-0969
DOI - 10.18146/2213-0969.2014.jethc069
Subject(s) - internationalization , democratization , ephemeral key , consumption (sociology) , post production , production (economics) , multimedia , political science , advertising , business , sociology , computer science , democracy , social science , economics , algorithm , politics , international trade , law , macroeconomics
The article analyses the changes in production and consumption in the audiovisual industry and the way the so-called ‘ephemeral’ commissioned productions are scarcely preserved. New technologies and the liberal economic policies and internationalisation changed the media landscape in the 1980s. Audiovisual companies created a broad range of products within the audiovisual industry. This also resulted in a democratisation of the use of media as well as new formats of programmes and distribution for commissioned productions. By looking at a specific company that recently handed over a collection to the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, challenges and issues of preserving video and digital and interactive audiovisual productions are discussed.