Audiovisual Archives: Digital Text and Discourse Analysis

Glossary of Acronyms

 

NOTE: Expressions in bold and followed by an asterisk (e.g. “ASW-HSS project*”) appear in the glossary.

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ARA© video-library

1) Acronym for “Audiovisual Research Archives”

2) The ARA is the general video-library of the ARA Program. This video-library broadcasts around 5,500 hours of (online) videos in about fifteen languages. The authors and directors of this collection form an “international community” of around 2,500 researchers, teachers, intellectuals, artists, politicians, journalists, professionals… working in some 85 countries around the world.

3) The ARA documents the main parts of research in human and social sciences. It also encompasses recordings of cultural and educational performances (exhibitions, concerts, lectures, etc.), audiovisual documentations of field research (on European emigration, the victims of the Latin American dictatorships, traditional food preparation, etc.) as well as reports and documentary films.

4) The audiovisual collection is composed on the one hand of productions created by ESCoM, 2001–2009 (and, at a much slower rate, from 2009 up to the present day) and on the other, audiovisual contributions belonging to other French and foreign institutions and/or to particular active researchers.

5) The URL of the official site of the ARA video library – available in eight languages – is: http://www.archivesaudiovisualles.fr/FR/.

ARA© Program

1) The ARA Program is a R&D project of ESCoM*, which was set up in 2001 as part of a ...