Thematic Section Editors: Gabriele Balbi, Berber Hagedoorn, Nazan Haydari, Valérie Schafer & Christian Schwarzenegger

The occasion for bringing together prior interests and combining theoretical and empirical understandings of the reasons why and the different modes how media persist over time was facilitated by the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) virtual post-conference. The later was (co-)organized jointly by three ECREA sections in September 2021: the Communication History section together with the sections of Radio and Sound, as well as Television Studies.

Thematic Section: Old media persistence

• Media persistence: Theories, approaches, categorization Gabriele Balbi, Berber Hagedoorn, Nazan Haydari, Valérie Schafer, Christian Schwarzenegger
• What we can learn from books in the digital age Michael Stamm
• Digital restoration and the invention of analogue: The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia and Wake in Fright Zachary Karpinellison
• Television archives, social networks and the young audiences: The example of Internet memes as a way to revitalise public broadcasters’ engagement Juan Francisco Gutiérrez Lozano, Antonio Cuartero
• “We consume to forget; we collect to believe”: Resistance, nostalgia, and VHS technologies in 21st century Greek video cultures Ursula-Helen Kassaveti
• Media consumption between dynamics and persistence: The meaning of persistent media practices in a mediatized everyday life Jutta Röser, Jo Marie Dominiak
• Thinking about platforming with more traditional mediatization: Lessons from audiovisual analysis Eric George, Justine Dorval, Edouard Germain