In describing Humphrey Jennings’ wartime documentary propaganda film, Listen to Britain (1942), a film with an overtly poetic sensibility and dominantly musical soundtrack, John Corner asserts that ‘through listening to Britain, we are enabled to properly look at it’ (2002: 306). This idea of sound leading our attention to the images has underpinned much of the collaborative work between compos...

In 2015, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) partnered with The Open University to produce the three-part documentary series, Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You. Michael Mosley, a British television producer and journalist, hosts the documentary. Along with narrating animated scenes of a growing fetus [2] in the womb [3], Mosley meets with individuals around the world who...

A recent paper in Geophysical Research Letters, ‘Solar influence on winter severity in central Europe’, by Sirocko et al (2012 Geophys. Res. Lett. 39 L16704) claims that ‘weak solar activity is empirically related to extremely cold winter conditions in Europe’ based on analyses of documentary evidence of freezing of the River Rhine in Germany and of the Reanalysis of the Twentieth Century (20C)...

cleaning up the houses and streets under their charge. This emphasis upon the amelioration of mortality extended to the occupational categorization adopted in the published reports on the successive decennial census of the second half of the nineteenth century. Classes were defined in terms of the materials with which and the manner in which people worked. There was no attempt at an economic an...

An increasing interest in qualitative data archiving and data sharing raises interesting challenges for researchers in terms of the ways in which they approach and treat documentary data and other secondary sources. Exploring the potential of documents to make sense of complex social worlds enables a consideration of the distinctive and multidimensional qualities of ‘documents of life’. In ‘a q...

Documentary research that aims to present the scope of the legislation and Blood Policy and Blood Products and to analyze the repercussions of the School Project of Hematology and Hemotherapy Center of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis as a strategy to blood donors motivation. Eight official documents and thirteen technical documents were investigated for the period of July 2010 to January 2011. Fo...

Translating Dialects in Search: Mapping between Specialized Languages of Discourse and Documentary Languages by Vivien Petras Doctor of Philosophy in Information Management and Systems University of California, Berkeley Professor Michael K. Buckland, Chair The biggest problem in searching an information system is to find the appropriate search terms that not only represent the searcher’s inform...

This article explores the methodological implications of actor-network theory for social research. Pointing to an increasing awareness of ANT in sociological discourse, but assuming that it is more widely known than well understood, the article outlines some of the key features of ANT as an approach to social life, before addressing the tricky question of how these ideas translate into methodol...

Archival images and audiovisual testimony-Negotiating the end of empire in the documentary films Guerra Colonial. Hist6rias de Cam pan ha em Mo~ambique {1998) and Natal71 {1999) 1 ABSTRAa KEYWORDS This article analyses Portuguese documentary films from the 1990s, when public archive discussions about the war of decolonization gained a new dynamic. The video series documentary film Guerra Coloni...