Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media: Mobilising Mediated Remembrance (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)

Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Contents
	List of Figures
	Notes on Contributors
	Chapter 1: Introduction: The Digital Memory Work Practices of Social Movements
		Social Movements and Cultural Memory
		Cultural Memory and Digital Media
		Digital Media and Social Movements
		The Digital Memory Work Practices of Social Movement
		Structure and Contributions
			Claims
			Circulations
			Curations
		Afterword
		References
	Part I: Claims
	Chapter 2: Trans Memory as Transmedia Activism
		Introduction
		Trans Erasure and Trans Memory
		Methodology
		Contesting Trans Erasure
		Crowdfunding Trans Media and Lives
		Questioning Trans Memory Productions
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 3: Who Is the Volk? PEGIDA and the Contested Memory of 1989 on Social Media
		Introduction
		PEGIDA, Social Media and Mobilisation
		PEGIDA’s Reputational Shields and Mnemonic Appropriations
		The Battle for Wir sind das Volk on Twitter
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 4: Connective Memory Work on Justice for Mike Brown
		Introduction
		Memory Work: Rethinking a Travelling Concept1
		From Collective to Connective Memory Work in Activism
		Researching Memory Work on Justice for Mike Brown
		Connective Memory Work on Justice for Mike Brown
			Networked Commemoration
			Memetic Resurrection
			Digital Archiving and Curation
			Crowd Reconstruction
		Rethinking Activist Memory Work in the Age of Social Media
		References
	Part II: Circulations
	Chapter 5: Following The Woman with the Handbag: Mnemonic Context Collapse and the Anti-fascist Activist Appropriation of an Iconic Historical Photograph
		Introduction
		(Re)contextualising Photographs and Memory in the Age of Digital Reproduction
		Follow the Photograph: Tracing and Tracking Objects of Memory in Action
		Runesson’s Decisive Moment
		Danielsson’s Media Moment
		The Photograph’s Digital Remediation and Translation
		The Photograph’s Activist Appropriation and Transduction
		The Photograph’s Delayed Virality
		Conclusion: Overcoming Context Collapse in Activist Memory Work
		References
	Chapter 6: #ioricordo, Beyond the Genoa G8: Social Practices of Memory Work and the Digital Remembrance of Contentious Pasts in Italy
		Introduction
		Theoretical Background: Movements, Memory and Social Media
			Memories and Movements
			Digital Memories and Social Media
			Movement Memories in a Social Media Context
		Case Study, Data and Methods
			Data and Methods
			The Genoa G8 and #ioricordo
		#ioricordo, Beyond the Genoa G8
			Bologna and the Stragismo, bridging memories
			The Foibe and Their Commemoration
			The Memory of Mafia Victims
			Anniversaries and Commemoration
		Authors: Digital Memory Activists, Digitally Networked Individuals, Mnemonic Project Activists and Digital Memory Brokers
		Content: Narratives, Counter-Narratives and Digital Memory Practices
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 7: In Between Old and New, Local and Transnational: Social Movements, Hybrid Media and the Challenges of Making Memories Move
		Introduction
		Communicative Power in Hybrid Media Systems: Social Movements, Memory Work, Digital Media
		Developing a New Transnational Remembrance: Contesting the Forgetting and Localisation of Bhopal
		Remembering the ‘Second Disaster’ Online: Restoring Transnational Valency
		Agile Localisations Within a ‘Hybrid Media System’
			ICJB in Bhopal (India): Engaging Mainstream Media and Wider Publics
			Mnemonic Translations Within the Movement: Mobilising Conversational Remembering
			BMA: Hybrid Mobilisations Around the 2012 London Olympics
		Conclusion
		References
	Part III: Curations
	Chapter 8: Archiving the Repertoire, Performing the Archive: Virtual Iterations of Second-Generation Activism in Post-Dictatorship Argentina
		Introduction
		The Legacy of Dictatorship: Afterlives of Repression and the Culture of Impunity
			Performing Postmemory: The Next Generation Takes the Stage
		Memory Activism Displaced: The Escrache as Performative Protest
			Continuity and Change in the Escrache: Ritual and Renewal
			‘If There’s No Justice, Escraches Continue’
			Repertoires of Contention and Condemnation
			What Remains, Who Remembers?
		The Escrache Beyond the Streets: Virtual Iterations of Performative Protest
			Generation YouTube: Open Access Activism?
			Revisiting (or Destabilising?) Archive and Repertoire
		By Way of Conclusion: Blurring the Repository and Repertoire
		References
	Chapter 9: How to Curate a ‘Living Archive’: The Restlessness of Activist Time and Labour
		Introduction
		Living and Cultural Memory
		What Can an Assemblage Memory Approach Do?
		The 858 Archive of Resistance
		The Occupy Wall Street Archives
		Women’s March On Archives
		Archival Agents: Social Media, Protestors, Archivists, Journalists as Connective Assemblers
		What Makes a Living Archive Live?
		In Conclusion: Between Archival Suspicions and Collaborations
		References
	Chapter 10: ‘We Will Not Forget, We Will Not Forgive!’: Alexei Navalny, Youth Protest and the Art of Curating Digital Activism and Memory in Russia
		Introduction
		Navalny, the ACF and the Digitalisation of Opposition in Russia
		Navalny and the ACF’s Digital Memory Work
		Navalny’s Curation of Young Protesters
		The Youth of Navalny’s Digital Memory Activism
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 11: Afterword/Afterweb: The Antisocial Memory Assemblage
		Preamble
		General Introduction
		Recentring the Antisocial in Media, Memory and Movements
		The Antisocial Memory Assemblage
		Next Steps
		References
	Index