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ERN Inaugural Symposium: audio
Posted by Toni Sant in Documentation, Events on June 10, 2010
Audio recordings of all the presentations from the ERN Inaugural Symposium held at the University of Oslo in Norway on Friday 28 May 2010 are available below, along with abstracts of presentations.
WELCOME
Arnt Maasø – Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway
INTRODUCTION: Setting the Agenda for Eurovision Studies
Toni Sant – School of Arts & New Media, University of Hull, Scarborough Campus, UK.
ERN MEMBER PRESENTATIONS
The Eurovision Song Contest and the problem of “quality”
Mari Pajala – Media Studies Department, University of Turku, Finland.
Eurovision: It’s oh so queer
Peter Rehberg – Editor-in-chief, Männer magazine, Germany.
Eurovision and the “New” Europe
Karen Fricker – Department of Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London & Milija Gluhovic – School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick, UK.
Nation Branding and Image Building Through Popular Culture: A Case Study of Estonia and Ukraine
Paul Jordan – Department of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, UK.
National Differences at the Eurovision Song Contest: The Seven Essential & Interconnected “Dimensions of Meaning”
Irving Wolther – HMTH Institute for Journalism and Communication Studies, Hannover, Germany.
The Global Networking of Irish Eurovision Song Contest Fans
Brian Singleton – Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
RESPONSE
Apostolos Lampropoulos – Department of French, University of Cyprus.
A Borda-less Eurovision
Posted by John P Egan in Commentary on June 4, 2010
As everyone in the ERN knows Eurovision uses a Borda count to tabulate scores. Each country allocates points to their 10 favourites. However, rather than allocate 10 points to the first ranked and 9 to the second, first place earns 12 points; 2nd 10 points. The idea is to skew the vote in favour of top-ranked scores…and to reduce the possibility of tie scores.
Using the awesome data available from here (http://www NULL.myledbury NULL.co NULL.uk/eurovision/)I yanked the Borda count down to a normal count. Pretty simple really: convert the 10 point allocations to 9, the 12 point ones to 10. Doesn’t change the results, but does give a clearer idea of how closely the songs scored. The italicized songs are the top 10 for each night. Read the rest of this entry »
Commentary on release of Eurovision televote and jury vote details by EBU
Posted by Adrian Kavanagh in Commentary on June 28, 2010
The EBU has just released jury vote and televote details for the recent Eurovision Song Contest final and two semi finals, which throw up some interesting findings. These details can be now viewed (http://www NULL.eurovision NULL.tv/page/news?id=18893&_t=EBU+reveals+split+voting+outcome%2C+surprising+results) on the official Eurovision webpage. In this post, I will tease out some of the more interesting trends emerging from a comparison of the televote and jury vote patterns. Read the rest of this entry »
2010, jury voting, Oslo, televoting
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