Full Description
This collected volume is the first to study the interface between contemporary social movements, cultural memory and digital media. Establishing the digital memory work practices of social movements as an important area of research, it reveals how activists use digital media to lay claim to, circulate and curate cultural memories. Interdisciplinary in scope, its contributors address mobilizations of mediated remembrance in the USA, Germany, Sweden, Italy, India, Argentina, the UK and Russia.
Contents
1. Introduction: The Digital Memory Work Practices of Social Movements.-2. Trans Memory as Transmedia Activism.- 3. Who is the Volk? PEGIDA and the Contested Memory of 1989 on Social Media.- 4. Connective memory work on Justice for Mike Brown.- 5. Following The Woman with the Handbag: Mnemonic Context Collapse and the Antifascist Activist Appropriation of an Iconic Historical Photograph.- 6. #ioricordo, beyond the Genoa G8: social practices of memory work and the digital remembrance of contentious pasts in Italy.- 7. In Between Old and New, Local and Transnational: Social Movements, Hybrid Media and the Challenges of Making Memories Move.- 8. Archiving the Repertoire, Performing the Archive: Virtual Iterations of Second-Generation Activism in Post-Dictatorship Argentina.- 9. How to Curate a 'Living Archive': The Restlessness of Activist Time and Labour.- 10. 'We Will Not Forget, We Will Not Forgive!': Alexei Navalny, Youth Protest and the Art of Curating Digital Activism and Memory in Russia.- 11. Afterword/Afterweb: The Antisocial Memory Assemblage.
