Memory in a Mediated World

Ivan Darias Alfonso, Cardiff University, UKMichael Arnold, University of Melbourne, AustraliaManuela Farinosi, University of Udine, ItalySarah Florini, Old Dominion University, USARolf Fredheim, University of Cambridge, UKJoanne Garde-Hansen, University of Warwick, UKMartin Gibbs, University of Melbourne, AustraliaAndrew Hoskins, University of Glasgow, UKLaura Huttunen, University of Tampere, FinlandOwain Jones, Bath Spa University, UKAnne Kaun, Södertörn University, SwedenEmily Keightley, Loughborough University, UKTamara Kohn, University of Melbourne, AustraliaMia Lindgren, Monash University, AustraliaLindsey McEwen, University of the West of England, UKJames Meese, University of Melbourne, AustraliaAlessandra Micalizzi, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, ItalyFlorence Millerand, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), CanadaDavid Myles, University of Montreal, CanadaBjorn Nansen, University of Melbourne, AustraliaPaige L. Gibson, Temple University, USAGail Phillips, Murdoch University, AustraliaMichael Pickering, Loughborough University, UKRuth Sanz Sabido, Canterbury Christ Church University, UKFredrik Stiernstedt, Jönköping University, SwedenChiaoning Su, Temple University, USA

"This book makes a crucial intervention in the interdisciplinary study of mediated memory. Combining a meticulously contextualized array of methodological approaches with a remarkably diverse range of innovative case studies, the book is an impressive testimony to the ways in which memory, and the study of memory, can mobilize remembered pasts for present concerns and future projects." - Pieter Vermeulen, University of Leuven, Belgium "Nowhere does social memory matter as much as in troubled times. This book brings together a diverse group of scholars who consider the roles played by collective memory in affecting the unsettled circumstances that follow upon natural disaster, war, uprising and other kinds of crisis. Memory, for these authors, holds enormous productive potential, a potential unpacked here in great detail. A highly useful intervention on an aspect of memory studies that has not been sufficiently examined to date." - Barbie Zelizer, Annenberg School for Communication, USA "This fascinating volume cuts the often inseparable knot that associates collective trauma, shared recollections, social crises and disintegration. The fresh perspective here suggested aims to define the mediation of memory especially in the digital age as a fertile ground for opportunities to voice, negotiate and reshape personal and social identities and to face present and future challenges. The comprehensive empirically-based cases explore the promise, which lies in contents and processes of mediation, to serve as a bridge over troubled water." - Motti Neiger, Netanya Academic College, Israel

• 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