The latest issue of VIEW Volume 03 issue 6 / 2014 deals with the history of media convergence from different points of view. It analyses TV convergence from a historical and long-term perspective.

This issue is co-edited by Gabriele Balbi, Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the Università della Svizzera italiana, and Massimo Scaglioni, Assistant Professor of Media History at the Catholic University of Milan.

Issue 6 is now fully and freely available at www.viewjournal.eu.

All articles can be read on screen, where source materials can be found embedded in the article text, or saved as a PDF for reading offline.

• Editorial – Gabriele Balbi, Massimo Scaglioni

Discoveries

• ‘More Than a Television Channel’: Channel 4, FilmFour and a Failed Convergence Strategy – Hannah Andrews
• Public Service Television in a Multi-Platform Environment: A Comparative Study in Finland and Israel – Oranit Klein Shagrir, Heidi Keinonen
• Multiscreening and Social TV: The Changing Landscape of TV Consumption in Italy – Alberto Marinelli, Romana Andò
• Newspaper Video Content: Genres and Editorial Formats in Spain – Samuel Negredo
• Convergent Cultures: The Disappearance of Commissioned Audiovisual Productions in The Netherlands – Bas Agterberg

Explorations

• Wide-Screen Television and Home Movies: Towards an Archaeology of Television and Cinema Convergence Before Digitalisation – Tom James Longley Steward
• Convergent Television and ‘Audience Participation’: The Early Days of Interactive Digital Television in the UK – Vivi Theodoropoulou
• ARTE: French-German Experiments in Crossing the Borders. ‘One Media – Three Screens’ Convergence and Interactivity at its Full Potential? – Anna Wiehl
• ‘The Schneiderverse’: Nickelodeon, Convergent Television and Transmedia Storytelling – Helena Louise Dare-Edwards
• TV Goes Social: Italian Broadcasting Strategies and the Challenges of Convergence – Luca Barra, Massimo Scaglioni
• Digital Convergence and Content Regulation – Michael John Starks