Media and Memory in New Shanghai

Media and Memory in New Shanghai
Author: A. Lagerkvist
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2013-07-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137014652

Contributing to current debates about the globality and mediatisation of memories, Media and Memory in New Shanghai interrogates the city's spectacular regeneration into an emergent world centre, describing how Western elites partake in the production of New Shanghai by feeling its futures and performing its futures past.

Digital Memory Studies

Digital Memory Studies
Author: Andrew Hoskins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2017-09-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317267419

Digital media, networks and archives reimagine and revitalize individual, social and cultural memory but they also ensnare it, bringing it under new forms of control. Understanding these paradoxical conditions of remembering and forgetting through today’s technologies needs bold interdisciplinary interventions. Digital Memory Studies seizes this challenge and pioneers an agenda that interrogates concepts, theories and histories of media and memory studies, to map a holistic vision for the study of the digital remaking of memory. Through the lenses of connectivity, archaeology, economy, and archive, contributors illuminate the uses and abuses of the digital past via an array of media and topics, including television, videogames and social media, and memory institutions, network politics and the digital afterlife.

Memory Unbound

Memory Unbound
Author: Lucy Bond
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1785333011

Though still a relatively young field, memory studies has undergone significant transformations since it first coalesced as an area of inquiry. Increasingly, scholars understand memory to be a fluid, dynamic, unbound phenomenon—a process rather than a reified object. Embodying just such an elastic approach, this state-of-the-field collection systematically explores the transcultural, transgenerational, transmedial, and transdisciplinary dimensions of memory—four key dynamics that have sometimes been studied in isolation but never in such an integrated manner. Memory Unbound places leading researchers in conversation with emerging voices in the field to recast our understanding of memory’s distinctive variability.

Media and Nostalgia

Media and Nostalgia
Author: K. Niemeyer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2014-05-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137375884

Media and Nostalgia is an interdisciplinary and international exploration of media and their relation to nostalgia. Each chapter demonstrates how nostalgia has always been a media-related matter, studying also the recent nostalgia boom by analysing, among others, digital photography, television series and home videos.

The Media of Testimony

The Media of Testimony
Author: S. Jones
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2014-08-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137364041

The Media of Testimony explores testimony relating to the Stasi in different cultural forms: autobiographical writing, memorial museums and documentary film. Combining theoretical models from diverse disciplines, it presents a new approach to the study of testimony, memory and mediation.

Remediating Transcultural Memory

Remediating Transcultural Memory
Author: Dagmar Brunow
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2015-09-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 311043637X

The impact of digital global media, geopolitical changes and migration demands new theorizations within memory studies. Despite the growing field of media memory studies, the impact from film and media studies has been scarce within memory studies. This unique study offers new theorizations of three crucial concepts for media memory studies: remediation, transculturality and the archive. This book takes a closer look at the media specificity of archival footage and how it is adapted, translated and appropriated. In its original approach this work reflects upon the role of documentary film images for the construction of memory. By merging film and media studies with memory studies the work offers multiple theoretical and methodological approaches for everyone interested in the heritage of audiovisual media: film and media scholars, memory scholars, historians, art historians, social scientists, librarians or archivists, curators and festival programmers alike.

Social Memory Technology

Social Memory Technology
Author: Karen Worcman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2016-02-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317685318

Memory is a fundamental aspect of being and becoming, intimately entwined with space, time, place, landscape, emotion, imagination and identity. Memory studies is a burgeoning field of enquiry drawing from a range of social science, arts and humanities disciplines including human geography, sociology, cultural studies, media studies, heritage and museum studies, psychology and history. This book is a critically theorised practical exposition of how media and technology are used to make memories for museums, archives, social movements and community projects, looking at specific cases in the UK and Brazil where the authors have put these theories into practice. The authors define the protocol they present as social memory technology. Critically, this book is about learning to deal with our pasts and learning new methods of connecting our pasts across cultures toward a shared understanding and application of memory technologies.

Memory in a Mediated World

Memory in a Mediated World
Author: Andrea Hajek
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2016-02-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137470127

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.

Autobiographical Memory in an Aboriginal Australian Community

Autobiographical Memory in an Aboriginal Australian Community
Author: A. Monchamp
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2014-08-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137325275

This book shares and analyses the stories of Opal, a senior Alyawarra woman. Through her stories the reader glimpses the harsh colonial realities which many Aboriginal Australians have faced, highlighting the cultural embeddedness of autobiographical memory from a philosophical, psychological and anthropological perspective.

Journalism and Memory

Journalism and Memory
Author: B. Zelizer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2014-02-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137263946

Tracking the ways in which journalism and memory mutually support, undermine, repair and challenge each other, this fascinating collection brings together leading scholars in journalism and memory studies to investigate the complicated role that journalism plays in relation to the past.