On media memory :

On media memory : collective memory in a new media age edited by Motti Neiger, Oren Meyers, and Eyal Zandberg. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - xvi, 300 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Palgrave Macmillan memory studies . - Palgrave Macmillan memory studies. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- Note on Contributors -- Editors' Introduction -- PART I: MEDIA MEMORY: THEORY AND METHODOLOGIES -- Cannibalizing Memory in the Global Flow of News; B.Zelizer -- The Democratic Potential of Mediated Collective Memory; J.A.Edy -- 'Round Up the Unusual Suspects': Banal Commemoration and the Role of the Media; V.Vinitzky-Seroussi -- Media Remembering: The Contribution of Life Story Methodology to Memory/Media Research; J.Bourdon -- PART II: MEDIA MEMORY, ETHICS AND WITNESSING -- Between Moral Activism and Archival Memory: The Testimonial Project of 'Breaking the Silence'; T.Katriel & N.Shavit -- Reclaiming Asaba: Old Media, New Media and the Construction of Memory; S.E.Bird -- Joint Memory: Mediating Evil and Suffering in a Digital Era; T.Ashuri -- PART III: MEDIA MEMORY AND POPULAR CULTURE -- Television and the Imagination of Memory ('Life on Mars'); P.Frosh -- Life History and National Memory: The Israeli Television Program 'Such a Life' (1972-2001); A.Ben-Amos & J.Bourdon -- History, Memory, and Means of Communication: The Case of Jew Süss; N.Sheffi -- Localizing Collective Memory: Radio Broadcasts and the Construction of Regional Memory; M.Neiger, E.Zandberg & O.Meyers -- Televising the Sixties in Spain: Memories and Historical Constructions; J.C.R.Laffond -- PART IV: MEDIA MEMORY, JOURNALISM AND JOURNALISTIC PRACTICE -- Obamabilia and the Historic Moment: Institutional Authority and 'Deeply Consequential Memory' in Keepsake Journalism; C.Kitch -- Telling the Unknown through the Familiar: Collective Memory as Journalistic Device in a Changing Media Environment; D.Berkowitz -- Journalism as an Agent of Prospective Memory; K.Tenenboim-Weinblatt -- Towards Memory Setting: A Theoretical Examination of the Application of Agenda Setting Methodology to Collective Memory Research; N.K.Vilenchik -- PART V: NEW MEDIA MEMORY -- Digital Media, Global Memory: Developing an Epistemology for the Globital; A.Reading -- Archive, Media, Trauma; A.Pinchevski -- Mediated Space, Mediated Memory: Reflection, Impasses and Re-presentation at the Holocaust Memorial, Berlin; I.Dekel -- From Collective to Connective Memory; A.Hoskins -- Index.

"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)"--

9780230275683 (hardback) 0230275680 (hardback)

2011008031


Mass media and culture.
Memory--Social aspects.
Collective memory.

P94.6 / .O5 2011

306.09 N31P



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