This book seeks to advance the discussion about the role of media in conflict memory work. In recent years the 'connective turn' has 'unmoored' memory from traditional institutions, replacing it with a searchable 'memory of the multitude' online. The automated systems of online platforms like Facebook 'dig' for memories on behalf of their users. Historical photographs shared on photo sharing sites like Instagram facilitate informal learning about events such as the Holocaust among younger generations. This has empowered a new generation of memory activists who leverage the affordances of online platforms for commemoration rituals. More recently, apps like Telegram have made it easier to document human rights violations during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, whilst simultaneously creating a curated, unsanitized 'war feed' for global audiences. The chapters in this collection explore how both analogue and digital media have been used to shape collective memories of conflicts in countries including Brazil, Israel-Palestine, Nigeria, Portugal and Ukraine.

Chapter 9 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Brings together studies conducted in 10 different states from both the Global North and Global South Combines analysis of analogue media - newspapers, photojournalism, film - and studies based on digital data Authors of the chapters draw on and contribute to numerous disciplines in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Autorentext

Paul Reilly is Senior Lecturer in Communications, Media and Democracy at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow.

Virpi Salojärvi is Senior Research at the University of Vaasa and the Helsinki Hub on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation (HEPP), University of Helsinki. She is also University Lecturer in Communication Studies at the University of Eastern Finland.

Cairsti Russell is Lecturer in Sociological and Cultural Studies at the University of Glasgow and a member of the Glasgow University Media Group (GUMG).

Klappentext

In an era of online connectivity, fragmentation, and contested pasts, this book broadens our perspective on how memory technologies, media genres, and digital practices shape and challenge collective understandings of conflict across national and transnational contexts.

Anastasiya Pshenychnykh, Loughborough University, UK

The book Media and Conflict Memory offers nuanced new insights on conflict memories and how to study them in digitalizing media environment.

Katja Lehtisaari, Tampere University, Finland

This book seeks to advance the discussion about the role of media in conflict memory work. In recent years the 'connective turn' has 'unmoored' memory from traditional institutions, replacing it with a searchable 'memory of the multitude' online. The automated systems of online platforms like Facebook 'dig' for memories on behalf of their users. Historical photographs shared on photo sharing sites like Instagram facilitate informal learning about events such as the Holocaust among younger generations. This has empowered a new generation of memory activists who leverage the affordances of online platforms for commemoration rituals. More recently, apps like Telegram have made it easier to document human rights violations during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, whilst simultaneously creating a curated, unsanitized 'war feed' for global audiences. The chapters in this collection explore how both analogue and digital media have been used to shape collective memories of conflicts in countries including Brazil, Israel-Palestine, Nigeria, Portugal and Ukraine.

Chapter 9 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Paul Reilly is Senior Lecturer in Communications, Media and Democracy at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow.

Virpi Salojärvi is Senior Research at the University of Vaasa and the Helsinki Hub on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation (HEPP), University of Helsinki. She is also University Lecturer in Communication Studies at the University of Eastern Finland.

Cairsti Russell is Lecturer in Sociological and Cultural Studies at the University of Glasgow and a member of the Glasgow University Media Group (GUMG).

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Troubling Images: Bloody Sunday and its Photographic Aftermath.- Chapter 3: Life During Wartime: Remembering the Northern Irish Troubles through historical photographs on Instagram.- Chapter 4: Decolonizing the photographs of Sabiha Gökçen in the context of the Dersim massacre.- Chapter 5: Migrations, media, and memory activisms: ongoing dialogues in a multidisciplinary project in Portugal.- Chapter 6: It doesn't hurt anyone to be a bit patriotic, even at bad points in history: An analysis of the postcolonial debate on the Facebook pages of Portuguese media outlets.- Chapter 7: Construction of digitally mediated memory: An exploration of YouTube narratives around the history of the Greek Civil War.- Chapter 8: Social media ephemeral stories: Memory, Young Nigerians and their struggle against police brutality.- Chapter 9: From the Victory Day to the unfriending day: Digital memory and the disconnective turn.- Chapter 10: Embedded Digital War Memories: Gazans' Practices on Digital Space to Prevent Forgetting Traumatic Events.- Chapter 11: Unfading Echoes: Journalism as the Guardian of Brazilian Tragedies' Collective Memory.- Chapter 12: War by another means: News media and collective memories of the Israel-Palestine conflict.- Chapter 13: Meme-orializing civil war: exploring audiences' mnemonic engagement with memes about the Troubles in Northern Ireland.- Chapter 14: Battle of Memories: Actualization of the past in Russian and Ukrainian memes in the context of the Russia-Ukraine war.