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Jen Mohan

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Jen Mohan

Jen Mohan is a senior project manager with Intelligent Television. Ms. Mohan recently completed a Digital Library Federation project that investigated the current condition of moving image collections across the United States. Among her research interests are moving image archiving and preservation, copyright law and media distribution, digital distribution of moving images, new technology, Internet culture and new media sharing and creation. Ms. Mohan graduated from Emerson College in 2000 with a B.A. in Film, concentrating on film history, theory and genre. She received her M.A. from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 2004 in Public History/Museum Studies with a concentration in Modern American Cultural History. In 2006 she earned her M.A. in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from New York University, where she wrote her thesis on the digital distribution of archival materials. She is the author, with Peter B. Kaufman, of “The Economics of Independent Film and Video Distribution in the Digital Age,” commissioned by the Tribeca Film Institute and available at: http://www.tribecafilminstitute.org/home/about/26250304.html.

 
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Tools to explore

MediaThread logoMediaThread is a next-generation platform for deep exploration, close analysis, and customized organization of web-based multimedia content. Designed at Columbia University’s Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, MediaThread is built on open-source software and enables users to view video closely, clip segments, attach annotations and tags, and organize them with other media for scholarly analysis.

Archives for today

San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive

James Baldwin talking with students

The San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive, established in 1982, preserves more than 4,000 hours of newsfilm, documentaries, and other programs produced in northern California between 1939 and 2005.  Among the treasures recently put online are 1960s films of James Baldwin and Maya Angelou and Marlon Brando speaking at the funeral of Black Panther Bobby Hutton. The Archive is part of San Francisco State University Library’s Department of Special Collections.

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