Full Description
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.
Contents
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 Recits 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
