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Silence, Screen, and Spectacle: Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information

Lindsey A. Freeman, Benjamin Nienass, Rachel Daniell (eds.)

New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2014), viii, 249 pp.

"This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese A ... more

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Journalism and Dealing with the Past: A Manual for Journalists in Kosovo
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Prishtina (KO): Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst (forumZFD) (2014), 30 pp.

"This manual is the result of Frequencies of the Past, a conflict sensitive journalism project by forumZFD. From 2011 to 2013, journalists from different media, ethnic backgrounds and from various regions of Kosovo have joined the project to explore the opportunities to cover sensitive issues relate ... more

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Looking at the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes, Cambodia, on Flickr and YouTube

Stephanie Benzaquen

Media, Culture & Society, volume 36, issue 6 (2014), pp. 790-809

"'During the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-9) the Tuol Svay Prey high school in Phnom Penh was used under the codename S21 as a torture-and-execution centre. In 1979, the government of the newly established People's Republic of Kampuchea had it refurbished as memorial. Today, people from all over the wor ... more

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Nationale Identität als Medieninhalt: Theoretische Konzeption und empirische Messung am Beispiel Bulgariens

Gergana Baeva

Baden-Baden: Nomos (2014), 341 pp.

"Die Studie behandelt nationale Identität als eine mediale Konstruktion und verfolgt dabei drei Ziele. Es wird ein Identitätsbegriff gesucht, der die Mikro- und Makroebene der Identitätsbildung sinnvoll miteinander verbindet. Darauf aufbauend wird eine Methode entwickelt, um nationale Identität ... more

NS-Propaganda im 21. Jahrhundert: Zwischen Verbot und öffentlicher Auseinandersetzung

Christian Kuchler (ed.)

Köln; Weimar; Wien: Böhlau (2014), 238 pp.

"Der Umgang mit den Relikten nationalsozialistischer Propaganda ist insbesondere in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland heftig umstritten; dies zeigen gerade die Diskussionen um eine wissenschaftliche Edition von Hitlers 'Mein Kampf'. Die Aufsätze des Bandes beschäftigen sich mit verschiedenen Propagan ... more

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Journalism and Memory

Barbie Zelizer, Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt (eds.)

Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), xv, 282 pp.

"Tracking the ways in which journalism and memory mutually support, undermine, repair and challenge each other, this fascinating collection brings together leading scholars in journalism and memory studies to investigate the complicated role that journalism plays in relation to the past." (Publisher ... more

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Kein Platz an der Sonne: Erinnerungsorte der deutschen Kolonialgeschichte

Jürgen Zimmerer (ed.)

Frankfurt am Main; New York: Campus Verlag (2013), 524 pp.

"Namibia gehört heute zu den beliebtesten Fernreisezielen der Deutschen - vielleicht auch deshalb, weil es einst als "Deutsch-Südwestafrika" Kolonie war. Die Erfahrung von Tourismus und Globalisierung rückte in den vergangenen Jahren den europäischen Kolonialismus, der auch die deutsche Geschich ... more

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Ibero-American Television Fiction Observatory Obitel 2013: Social Memory and Television Fiction in Ibero-American Countries

Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes, Guillermo Orozco Gómez (eds.)

Porto Alegre: Sulina;Globo Comunicação e Participações (2013), 523 pp.

"The first part, “Fiction in the Ibero-American Space”, presents a comparative synthesis of fiction in the Obitel countries. This comparison is made from a quantitative and qualitative perspective that allows to observe the development of fiction in each country, highlighting their main producti ... more

Silence or Outrage: How South East Europe’s Media Deal with the Past

Christian Spahr

KAS International Reports, issue 4 (2013), pp. 60-74

"Coming to terms with a country’s political past is closely linked to the mass media, as they are the key to changing public opinion. It is only with their support that a general acceptance of democratic structures, not to mention a new perception of history, can be achieved. In South East Europe, ... more

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Periodismo y memoria histórica: La contribución del periodismo en la recuperación de la memoria histórica a partir de testimonios orales

Margarita Antón Crespo, María Estrella Alonso del Barrio, Ana Fuertes Zapatero (coord.)

Salamanca: Comunicación Social (2013), 185 pp.

Memory, Conflict and New Media: Web Wars in Post-Socialist States

Ellen Rutten, Julie Fedor, Vera Zvereva (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2013), xv, 265 pp.

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Research Methods for Memory Studies

Emily Keightley, Michael Pickering (eds.)

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2013), vi, 256 pp.

"This guide provides students and researchers with a clear set of outlines and discussions of particular methods of research in memory studies. It offers not only expert appraisals of a range of techniques, approaches and perspectives in memory studies, but also focuses on key questions of methodolo ... more

Nation as Neighborhood: How Bab Al-Hara Dramatized Syrian Identity

Omar Al-Ghazzi

Media, Culture & Society, volume 35, issue 5 (2013), pp. 586-601

"This article discusses a popular Syrian television drama series, Bab al-Hara (The Neighborhood Gate), which ran for five seasons (2006-10). It is part of a genre of television series called the "Damascene milieu," which nostalgically dramatizes life in imagined Damascene neighborhoods in the late 1 ... more

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Public Memory, Public Media, and the Politics of Justice

Philip Lee, Pradip Thomas (eds.)

Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xvii, 220 pp.

"This book aims to provide a context in which a clear link can be traced between the politics of memory and its manifold representations and misrepresentations in public media towards a viable politics of justice. The assumption is that public awareness and perceptions of injustice, whether they are ... more

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Memory and Political Change

Aleida Assmann, Linda Shortt (eds.)

Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xviii, 223 pp.

"Examining the role of memory in the transition from totalitarian to democratic systems, this book makes an important contribution to memory studies. It explores memory as a medium of and impediment to change, looking at memory's biological, cultural, narrative and socio-psychological dimensions." ( ... more

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Balkan Memories: Media Constructions of National and Transnational History

Tanja Zimmermann (ed.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2012), 270 pp.

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Memory in Culture

Astrid Erll

Houndmills; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), ix, 209 pp.

"This book questions the sociocultural dimensions of remembering. It offers an overview of the history and theory of memory studies through the lens of sociology, political science, anthropology, psychology, literature, art and media studies; documenting current international and interdisciplinary m ... more

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The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals

Birgit Beumers, Stephen C. Hutchings, Natalia Rulyova (eds.)

New York, NY: Routledge (2011), xv, 245 pp.

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On Media Memory: Collective Memory in a New Media Age

Mordechai Neiger, Oren Meyers, Eyal Zandberg (eds.)

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), xvi, 300 pp.

"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, Spai ... more