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Title On media memory : collective memory in a new media age / [edited by] Motti Neiger, Oren Meyers, and Eyal Zandberg
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Series Palgrave Macmillan memory studies
Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.
Contents Part I. Media Memory: Theory and Methodologies: 1. Cannibalizing memory in the global flow of news / Barbie Zelizer; 2. The democratic potential of mediated collective memory / Jill A. Edy; 3. ' Round Up the Unusual Suspects': banal commemoration and the role of the media / Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi; 4. Media remembering: the contribution of life-story methodology to memory/media research / Jérôme Bourdon -- Part II. Media Memory, Ethics, and Witnessing: 5. Between moral activism and archival memory: the testimonial project of 'Breaking the Silence' / Tamar Katriel and Nimrod Shavit; 6. Reclaiming Asaba: old media, new media and the construction of memory / S. Elizabeth Bird; 7. Joint memory: ICT and the rise of moral mnemonic agents / Tamar Ashuri -- Part II.: Media Memory and Popular Culture: 8. Television and the imagination of memory: Life on Mars / Paul Frosh; 9. Life history and national memory: the Israeli television program Such a Life, 1972-2001 / Avner Ben-Amos and Jérôme Bourdon; 10. History, memory, and means of communication: the case of Jew Süss / Na'ama Sheffi; 11. Localizing collective memory: radio broadcasts and the construction of regional memory / Motti Neiger, Eyal Zandberg, and Oren Meyers; 12. Televising the sixties in Spain: memories and historical constructions / José Carlos Rueda Laffond -- Part IV. Media Memory, Journalism, and Journalistic Practice: 13. Obamabilia and the historic moment: institutional authority and 'Deeply Consequential Memory' in keepsake journalism / Carolyn Kitch; 14. Telling the unknown through the familiar: collective memory as journalistic device in a changing media environment / Dan Berkowitz; 15 Journalism as an agent of prospective memory / Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt; 16. Memory-setting: applying agenda-setting theory to the study of collective memory / Neta Kligler-Vilenchik -- Part V. New Media Memory: 17. Memory and digital media: six dynamics of the globital memory field / Anna Reading; 18. Archive, media, trauma / Amit Pinchevski; 19. Mediated space, mediated memory: new archives at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin / Irit Dekel; 20. Anachronisms of media, anachronisms of memory: from collective memory to new memory ecology / Andrew Hoskins
Summary This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of the concept of Media Memory and brings Media and Mediation to the forefront of Collective Memory research. Twenty concise and€thought-provoking essays, by leading scholars of communication research and collective memory studies, address fundamental conceptual challenges and discuss specific case studies in order to illuminate theoretical questions. The scope of the essays reflects a diversity of media technologies including print, television, radio, film and new media; media genres such as news, fiction and documentary; and cultural contexts comprising analyses from the US, UK, Spain, Nigeria, France, Germany and the Middle East
"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)"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Mass media and culture.
Memory -- Social aspects
Collective memory.
Communication studies.
TV & society.
Political science & theory.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Television -- History & Criticism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
Media Studies.
Collective memory
Mass media and culture
Memory -- Social aspects
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Massenmedien
Massamedia.
Journalistiek.
Collectief geheugen.
Kollektives Gedächtnis.
Digitale Medien.
Massenmedien.
Journalismus.
Media studies: TV & society.
Communication studies.
Media Studies.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Neiger, Mordechai.
Meyers, Oren, editor
Zandberg, Eyal, editor
ISBN 9780230307070
0230307078
9781349324996
134932499X
1283124734
9781283124737
9786613124739
6613124737