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Expanding the Television Archive

Posted on February 22, 2018 by Wendy Hanamura

When we started archiving television in 2000, people shrugged and asked, “Why?  Isn’t it all junk anyway?” As the saying goes, one person’s junk is another person’s gold. From 2010-18, scholars, pundits and above all, reporters, have spun journalistic gold … Continue reading →

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The Political TV Ad Archive: seeing political TV ads in new way

Posted on February 5, 2016 by Nancy Watzman

A Vox reporter watched every TV ad bombarding Iowa’s voters in the lead up to the caucus–some 100 ads that aired more than 45,000 times–and  lived to tell the tale. Among Alvin Chang’s observations: female omniscient narrators are rare in political … Continue reading →

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