On media memory
Subtitle: collective memory in a new media age
By: [edited by] Motti Neiger ... [et al.].
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780230275683
Subjects: Collective memory; PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism; Mass media and culture; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; Memory; Social aspects; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Description: "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)"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Note on Contributors; title: Editors' Introduction; title: PART I: MEDIA MEMORY: THEORY AND METHODOLOGIES; title: Cannibalizing Memory in the Global Flow of News; B.Zelizer; title: The Democratic Potential of Mediated Collective Memory; J.A.Edy; title: 'Round Up the Unusual Suspects': Banal Commemoration and the Role of the Media; V.Vinitzky-Seroussi; title: Media Remembering: The Contribution of Life Story Methodology to Memory/Media Research; J.Bourdon; title: PART II: MEDIA MEMORY, ETHICS AND WITNESSING; title: Between Moral Activism and Archival Memory: The Testimonial Project of 'Breaking the Silence'; T.Katriel & N.Shavit; title: Reclaiming Asaba: Old Media, New Media and the Construction of Memory; S.E.Bird; title: Joint Memory: Mediating Evil and Suffering in a Digital Era; T.Ashuri; title: PART III: MEDIA MEMORY AND POPULAR CULTURE; title: Television and the Imagination of Memory ('Life on Mars'); P.Frosh; title: Life History and National Memory: The Israeli Television Program 'Such a Life' (1972-2001); A.Ben-Amos & J.Bourdon; title: History, Memory, and Means of Communication: The Case of Jew Süss; N.Sheffi; title: Localizing Collective Memory: Radio Broadcasts and the Construction of Regional Memory; M.Neiger, E.Zandberg & O.Meyers; title: Televising the Sixties in Spain: Memories and Historical Constructions; J.C.R.Laffond; title: PART IV: MEDIA MEMORY, JOURNALISM AND JOURNALISTIC PRACTICE; title: Obamabilia and the Historic Moment: Institutional Authority and 'Deeply Consequential Memory' in Keepsake Journalism; C.Kitch; title: Telling the Unknown through the Familiar: Collective Memory as Journalistic Device in a Changing Media Environment; D.Berkowitz; title: Journalism as an Agent of Prospective Memory; K.Tenenboim-Weinblatt; title: Towards Memory Setting: A Theoretical Examination of the Application of Agenda Setting Methodology to Collective Memory Research; N.K.Vilenchik; title: PART V: NEW MEDIA MEMORY; title: Digital Media, Global Memory: Developing an Epistemology for the Globital; A.Reading; title: Archive, Media, Trauma; A.Pinchevski; title: Mediated Space, Mediated Memory: Reflection, Impasses and Re-presentation at the Holocaust Memorial, Berlin; I.Dekel; title: From Collective to Connective Memory; A.Hoskins; title: Index.