On Media Memory: Collective Memory in a New Media Age

by M. Neiger (Editor), O. Meyers (Editor), E. Zandberg (Editor)

Overview

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).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349324996
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	04/28/2011
Series:	Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Edition description:	1st ed. 2011
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

TAMAR ASHURI Lecturer at Ben-Gurion University's Department of Communication Studies and in the School of Communications at Sapir College, Israel AVNER BEN-AMOS Professor of History of Education at the School of Education, Tel-Aviv University, Israel DAN BERKOWITZ Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa, USA S. ELIZABETH BIRD Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida, USA JÉRÔME BOURDON Professor in the Department of Communications, Tel Aviv University, Israel IRIT DEKEL Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for German Studies of the European Forum, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel JILL A. EDY Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Oklahoma, USA PAUL FROSH Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication and Journalism at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel ANDREW HOSKINS Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK TAMAR KATRIEL Professor in the Department of Communication and the Department of Leadership and Policy in Education at the University of Haifa, Israel CAROLYN KITCH Professor of Journalism in the School of Communications and Theatre at Temple University, USA NETA KLIGLER-VILENCHIK Ph.D. Candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, USA AMIT PINCHEVSKI Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel ANNA READING Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at London South Bank University, UK JOSÉ CARLOS RUEDA LAFFOND Senior Lecturer at the Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain VERED VINITZKY-SEROUSSI Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and a Faculty Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Sociology at Yale University, USA NIMROD SHAVIT Graduate student in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA NA'AMA SHEFFI Associate Professor at the School of Communication in Sapir College, Sderot, Israel KEREN TENENBOIM-WEINBLATT Doctoral candidate at The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, USA BARBIE ZELIZER Raymond Williams Chair of Communication at the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Table of Contents

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 Caseof 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

Editorial Reviews

'This book serves as an excellent introduction to the field. However, it also lays out a much-needed research agenda of collective memory studies in new important areas of mediated communication.'

- Ingrid Volkmer, Journal of Communication

'On Media Memory is an interesting collection that offers a number of ways to think through how media memories are constructed, connected, created, invoked, transmitted, eluded to, enacted and re-enacted in social, cultural, individual and collective ways. As the editors are academics based in Israel, there a large number of essays that focus on the interface of media/memory in Israeli culture. These provide insight into how media and memory were mobilized in the formation of Israel and continue to be mobilized in contemporary Israeli politics. Essays also reflect on how the various media and memory is being used to critique the ongoing military occupation of Palestine. For this reason, the collection may be particularly useful for researchers who are critically examining the mediation of Israeli nationalism and its contemporary political implications. This book is challenging, insightful and informative and will definitely be of interest to researchers from a range of disciplines exploring the relationship between media and memory.'

- Debi Withers, Memory Studies

'On Media Memory studies media memory from the perspective of collectivememory, which is considered as 'an inherently mediated phenomenon' (p. 3). While this insight is not new, the book sets out and succeeds to provide refreshing perspectives on the multi-faced and complex nature of media memory, and to pose new questions that result both from recent developments (e.g. the impact of mobile digital media on the nature, process and changes in media memory) and changing insights into meaning creation through memory.'

- Hilde Van Den Bulck, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

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