Memory in a Mediated World

Considering both retrospective memories and the prospective employment of memories, Memory in a Mediated World examines troubled times that demand resolution, recovery and restoration. Its contributions provide empirically grounded analyses of how media are employed by individuals and social groups to connect the past, the present and the future.

"This book makes a crucial intervention in the interdisciplinary study of mediated memory. Combining a meticulously contextualized array of methodological approaches with a remarkably diverse range of innovative case studies, the book is an impressive testimony to the ways in which memory, and the study of memory, can mobilize remembered pasts for present concerns and future projects." - Pieter Vermeulen, University of Leuven, Belgium

"Nowhere does social memory matter as much as in troubled times. This book brings together a diverse group of scholars who consider the roles played by collective memory in affecting the unsettled circumstances that follow upon natural disaster, war, uprising and other kinds of crisis. Memory, for these authors, holds enormous productive potential, a potential unpacked here in great detail. A highly useful intervention on an aspect of memory studies that has not been sufficiently examined to date." - Barbie Zelizer, Annenberg School for Communication, USA

"This fascinating volume cuts the often inseparable knot that associates collective trauma, shared recollections, social crises and disintegration. The fresh perspective here suggested aims to define the mediation of memory especially in the digital age as a fertile ground for opportunities to voice, negotiate and reshape personal and social identities and to face present and future challenges. The comprehensive empirically-based cases explore the promise, which lies in contents and processes of mediation, to serve as a bridge over troubled water." - Motti Neiger, Netanya Academic College, Israel

Autorentext
Ivan Darias Alfonso, Cardiff University, UK Michael Arnold, University of Melbourne, Australia Manuela Farinosi, University of Udine, Italy Sarah Florini, Old Dominion University, USA Rolf Fredheim, University of Cambridge, UK Joanne Garde-Hansen, University of Warwick, UK Martin Gibbs, University of Melbourne, Australia Andrew Hoskins, University of Glasgow, UK Laura Huttunen, University of Tampere, Finland Owain Jones, Bath Spa University, UK Anne Kaun, Södertörn University, Sweden Emily Keightley, Loughborough University, UK Tamara Kohn, University of Melbourne, Australia Mia Lindgren, Monash University, Australia Lindsey McEwen, University of the West of England, UK James Meese, University of Melbourne, Australia Alessandra Micalizzi, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Italy Florence Millerand, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada David Myles, University of Montreal, Canada Bjorn Nansen, University of Melbourne, Australia Paige L. Gibson, Temple University, USA Gail Phillips, Murdoch University, Australia Michael Pickering, Loughborough University, UK Ruth Sanz Sabido, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK Fredrik Stiernstedt, Jönköping University, Sweden Chiaoning Su, Temple University, USA

Inhalt

Introduction: Remembering And Reviving In States Of Flux; Christian Pentzold, Christine Lohmeier And Andrea Hajek

1. Archive Me! Media, Memory, Uncertainty; Andrew Hoskins
2. Memory, Media And Methodological Footings ; Michael Pickering And Emily Keightley
   PART I: REJOINING THROUGH STATES OF EMERGENCY
3. Towards A Memo-Techno-Ecology: Mediating Memories Of Extreme Flooding In Resilient Communities; Joanne Garde-Hansen, Lindsey McEwen And Owain Jones
4. Digitizing The Memorial: Institutional And Vernacular Remembrances Of The Taiwanese 921 Earthquake And Typhoon Morakot; Chiaoning Su And Paige L. Gibson
5. Geolocating The Past: Online Memories After The L'Aquila Earthquake; Manuela Farinosi And Alessandra Micalizzi
   PART II: REFORMING STATES OF AFFAIRS
6. Disrupting The Past, Reframing The Present: Websites, Alternative Histories And Petit Récits As Black Nationalist Politics; Sarah Florini
7. Feminist Impact: Exploring The Cultural Memory Of Second-Wave Feminism In Contemporary Italy; Andrea Hajek
8. Echoes Of The Spanish Revolution; Ruth M. Sanz Sabido
9. Asbestos Memories: Journalistic 'Mediation' In Mediated Prospective Memory; Mia Lindgren And Gail Phillips
   PART III: RECOLLECTING STATES OF IDENTITIES
10. Stories Of Love And Hate: Cultural Memory In The Cuban Diaspora; Ivan Darias Alfonso
11. Media Memory Practices And Community Of Remembrance: Youth Radio DT64; Anne Kaun And Fredrik Stiernstedt
12. August 1991 And The Memory Of Communism In Russia; Rolf Fredheim
    PART IV: RECALLING STATES OF LIFE
13. Mourning In A 'Sociotechnically' Acceptable Manner: A Facebook Case Study; David Myles And Florence Millerand
14. Remembering, Witnessing, Bringing Closure: Srebrenica Burial Ceremonies On Youtube; Laura Huttunen
15. Remembering Zyzz: Distributed Memories On Distributed Networks; Bjorn Nansen, Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, Tamara Kohn And James Meese