ISBN:
9780230307070
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (309 pages)
Series Statement:
Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Mass media and culture
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Memory -- Social aspects
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Collective memory
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Mass media and culture..
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Memory ; Social aspects..
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Collective memory
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of Media Memory and brings Media and Mediation to the forefront of Collective Memory research. The essays explore a diversity of media technologies (television, radio, film and new media), genres (news, fiction, documentaries) and contexts (US, UK, Spain, Nigeria, Germany and the Middle East).
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- On Media Memory: Editors' Introduction -- Part I: Media Memory: Theory and Methodologies -- 1 Cannibalizing Memory in the Global Flow of News -- 2 The Democratic Potential of Mediated Collective Memory -- 3 'Round Up the Unusual Suspects': Banal Commemoration and the Role of the Media -- 4 Media Remembering: the Contributions of Life-Story Methodology to Memory/Media Research -- Part II: Media Memory, Ethics, and Witnessing -- 5 Between Moral Activism and Archival Memory: the Testimonial Project of 'Breaking the Silence' -- 6 Reclaiming Asaba: Old Media, New Media, and the Construction of Memory -- 7 Joint Memory: ICT and the Rise of Moral Mnemonic Agents -- Part III: Media Memory and Popular Culture -- 8 Television and the Imagination of Memory: Life on Mars -- 9 Life History and National Memory: the Israeli Television Program Such a Life, 1972-2001 -- 10 History, Memory, and Means of Communication: the Case of Jew Süss -- 11 Localizing Collective Memory: Radio Broadcasts and the Construction of Regional Memory -- 12 Televising the Sixties in Spain: Memories and Historical Constructions -- Part IV: Media Memory, Journalism, and Journalistic Practice -- 13 Obamabilia and the Historic Moment: Institutional Authority and 'Deeply Consequential Memory' in Keepsake Journalism -- 14 Telling the Unknown through the Familiar: Collective Memory as Journalistic Device in a Changing Media Environment -- 15 Journalism as an Agent of Prospective Memory -- 16 Memory-Setting: Applying Agenda-Setting Theory to the Study of Collective Memory -- Part V: New Media Memory -- 17 Memory and Digital Media: Six Dynamics of the Globital Memory Field -- 18 Archive, Media, Trauma -- 19 Mediated Space, Mediated Memory: New Archives at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin.
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