On Media Memory: Collective Memory in a New Media Age
Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), xvi, 300 pp.
Contains illustrations, index
Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
ISBN 9780230275683 (hbk)
"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)." (Publisher description)
On Media Memory: Editors’ Introduction, 1
I. MEDIA MEMORY: THEORY AND METHODOLOGIES
1 Cannibalizing Memory in the Global Flow of News / Barbie Zelizer, 27
2 The Democratic Potential of Mediated Collective Memory / Jill A. Edy, 37
3 ‘Round Up the Unusual Suspects’: Banal Commemoration and the Role of the Media / Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, 48
4 Media Remembering: the Contributions of Life-Story Methodology to Memory/Media Research / Jérôme Bourdon, 62
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, 77
6 Reclaiming Asaba: Old Media, New Media, and the Construction of Memory / S. Elizabeth Bird, 88
7 Joint Memory: ICT and the Rise of Moral Mnemonic Agents / Tamar Ashuri, 104
III. MEDIA MEMORY AND POPULAR CULTURE
8 Television and the Imagination of Memory: Life on Mars / Paul Frosh, 117
9 Life History and National Memory: the Israeli Television Program Such a Life, 1972–2001 / Avner Ben-Amos and Jérôme Bourdon, 132
10 History, Memory, and Means of Communication: the Case of Jew Süss / Na’ama Sheffi, 145
11 Localizing Collective Memory: Radio Broadcasts and the Construction of Regional Memory / Motti Neiger, Eyal Zandberg, and Oren Meyers, 156
12 Televising the Sixties in Spain: Memories and Historical Constructions / José Carlos Rueda Laffond, 174
IV. MEDIA MEMORY, JOURNALISM AND JOURNALISTIC PRACTICE
13 Obamabilia and the Historic Moment: Institutional Authority and ‘Deeply Consequential Memory’ in Keepsake Journalism / Carolyn Kitch, 189
14 Telling the Unknown through the Familiar: Collective Memory as Journalistic Device in a Changing Media Environment / Dan Berkowitz, 201
15 Journalism as an Agent of Prospective Memory / Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt, 213
16 Memory-Setting: Applying Agenda-Setting Theory to the Study of Collective Memory / Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, 226
V. NEW MEDIA MEMORY
17 Memory and Digital Media: Six Dynamics of the Globital Memory Field / Anna Reading, 241
18 Archive, Media, Trauma / Amit Pinchevski, 253
19 Mediated Space, Mediated Memory: New Archives at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin / Irit Dekel, 265
20 Anachronisms of Media, Anachronisms of Memory: From Collective Memory to a New Memory Ecology / Andrew Hoskins, 278
I. MEDIA MEMORY: THEORY AND METHODOLOGIES
1 Cannibalizing Memory in the Global Flow of News / Barbie Zelizer, 27
2 The Democratic Potential of Mediated Collective Memory / Jill A. Edy, 37
3 ‘Round Up the Unusual Suspects’: Banal Commemoration and the Role of the Media / Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, 48
4 Media Remembering: the Contributions of Life-Story Methodology to Memory/Media Research / Jérôme Bourdon, 62
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, 77
6 Reclaiming Asaba: Old Media, New Media, and the Construction of Memory / S. Elizabeth Bird, 88
7 Joint Memory: ICT and the Rise of Moral Mnemonic Agents / Tamar Ashuri, 104
III. MEDIA MEMORY AND POPULAR CULTURE
8 Television and the Imagination of Memory: Life on Mars / Paul Frosh, 117
9 Life History and National Memory: the Israeli Television Program Such a Life, 1972–2001 / Avner Ben-Amos and Jérôme Bourdon, 132
10 History, Memory, and Means of Communication: the Case of Jew Süss / Na’ama Sheffi, 145
11 Localizing Collective Memory: Radio Broadcasts and the Construction of Regional Memory / Motti Neiger, Eyal Zandberg, and Oren Meyers, 156
12 Televising the Sixties in Spain: Memories and Historical Constructions / José Carlos Rueda Laffond, 174
IV. MEDIA MEMORY, JOURNALISM AND JOURNALISTIC PRACTICE
13 Obamabilia and the Historic Moment: Institutional Authority and ‘Deeply Consequential Memory’ in Keepsake Journalism / Carolyn Kitch, 189
14 Telling the Unknown through the Familiar: Collective Memory as Journalistic Device in a Changing Media Environment / Dan Berkowitz, 201
15 Journalism as an Agent of Prospective Memory / Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt, 213
16 Memory-Setting: Applying Agenda-Setting Theory to the Study of Collective Memory / Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, 226
V. NEW MEDIA MEMORY
17 Memory and Digital Media: Six Dynamics of the Globital Memory Field / Anna Reading, 241
18 Archive, Media, Trauma / Amit Pinchevski, 253
19 Mediated Space, Mediated Memory: New Archives at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin / Irit Dekel, 265
20 Anachronisms of Media, Anachronisms of Memory: From Collective Memory to a New Memory Ecology / Andrew Hoskins, 278
