On Media Memory: Collective Memory in a New Media Age (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Notes on Contributors......Page 11
On Media Memory: Editors' Introduction......Page 18
Part I: Media Memory: Theory and Methodologies......Page 42
1 Cannibalizing Memory in the Global Flow of News......Page 44
2 The Democratic Potential of Mediated Collective Memory......Page 54
3 'Round Up the Unusual Suspects': Banal Commemoration and the Role of the Media......Page 65
4 Media Remembering: the Contributions of Life-Story Methodology to Memory/Media Research......Page 79
Part II: Media Memory, Ethics, and Witnessing......Page 92
5 Between Moral Activism and Archival Memory: the Testimonial Project of 'Breaking the Silence'......Page 94
6 Reclaiming Asaba: Old Media, New Media, and the Construction of Memory......Page 105
7 Joint Memory: ICT and the Rise of Moral Mnemonic Agents......Page 121
Part III: Media Memory and Popular Culture......Page 132
8 Television and the Imagination of Memory: Life on Mars......Page 134
9 Life History and National Memory: the Israeli Television Program Such a Life, 1972–2001......Page 149
10 History, Memory, and Means of Communication: the Case of Jew Süss......Page 162
11 Localizing Collective Memory: Radio Broadcasts and the Construction of Regional Memory......Page 173
12 Televising the Sixties in Spain: Memories and Historical Constructions......Page 191
Part IV: Media Memory, Journalism, and Journalistic Practice......Page 204
13 Obamabilia and the Historic Moment: Institutional Authority and 'Deeply Consequential Memory' in Keepsake Journalism......Page 206
14 Telling the Unknown through the Familiar: Collective Memory as Journalistic Device in a Changing Media Environment......Page 218
15 Journalism as an Agent of Prospective Memory......Page 230
16 Memory-Setting: Applying Agenda-Setting Theory to the Study of Collective Memory......Page 243
Part V: New Media Memory......Page 256
17 Memory and Digital Media: Six Dynamics of the Globital Memory Field......Page 258
18 Archive, Media, Trauma......Page 270
19 Mediated Space, Mediated Memory: New Archives at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin......Page 282
20 Anachronisms of Media, Anachronisms of Memory: From Collective Memory to a New Memory Ecology......Page 295
Index......Page 306