On Media Memory: Collective Memory in a New Media Age

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
On Media Memory: Editors’ Introduction....Pages 1-24
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Cannibalizing Memory in the Global Flow of News....Pages 27-36
The Democratic Potential of Mediated Collective Memory....Pages 37-47
‘Round Up the Unusual Suspects’: Banal Commemoration and the Role of the Media....Pages 48-61
Media Remembering: the Contributions of Life-Story Methodology to Memory/Media Research....Pages 62-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Between Moral Activism and Archival Memory: the Testimonial Project of ‘Breaking the Silence’....Pages 77-87
Reclaiming Asaba: Old Media, New Media, and the Construction of Memory....Pages 88-103
Joint Memory: ICT and the Rise of Moral Mnemonic Agents....Pages 104-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Life History and National Memory: the Israeli Television Program Such a Life, 1972–2001....Pages 117-131
History, Memory, and Means of Communication: the Case of Jew Süss....Pages 132-144
Localizing Collective Memory: Radio Broadcasts and the Construction of Regional Memory....Pages 145-155
Televising the Sixties in Spain: Memories and Historical Constructions....Pages 156-173
Front Matter....Pages 174-186
Obamabilia and the Historic Moment: Institutional Authority and ‘Deeply Consequential Memory’ in Keepsake Journalism....Pages 187-187
Telling the Unknown through the Familiar: Collective Memory as Journalistic Device in a Changing Media Environment....Pages 189-200
Journalism as an Agent of Prospective Memory....Pages 201-212
Memory-Setting: Applying Agenda-Setting Theory to the Study of Collective Memory....Pages 213-225
Front Matter....Pages 226-237
Memory and Digital Media: Six Dynamics of the Globital Memory Field....Pages 239-239
Archive, Media, Trauma....Pages 241-252
Mediated Space, Mediated Memory: New Archives at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin....Pages 253-264
Front Matter....Pages 265-277
Anachronisms of Media, Anachronisms of Memory: From Collective Memory to a New Memory Ecology....Pages 239-239
Back Matter....Pages 278-288
....Pages 289-300