Media and Memory
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מחקר זה מעוגן בתפיסה המבקשת לבחון את התקשורת והמשפט כמערכות פרשניות ומעניקות משמעות, הפועלות בהתייחס להקשרים תרבותיים. המחקר מיישם תפיסה זאת באמצעות בחינת האופנים שבאמצעותם שתי המערכות - המשפט והעיתונות - הבנו ומסגרו את זיכרון פרשת רצח... more
Leif Kramp untersucht erstmals umfassend die Gedächtnisrelevanz des Massenmediums Fernsehen sowie den archivischen und musealen Umgang mit der Fernsehgeschichte. Anknüpfend an die interdisziplinären Zweige der Gedächtnisforschung... more
In his book, Alexander Jakobidze-Gitman traces the evolution of the attitude toward Stalinism in post-Soviet cinema. Initially, the post-Soviet-era film-makers focused primarily on the "demonic" aspects of Stalin, which were,... more
Concept paper on memory studies and media
In Transmitted Wounds, Amit Pinchevski explores the ways media technology and logic shape the social life of trauma both clinically and culturally. Bringing media theory to bear on trauma theory, Pinchevski reveals the technical... more
In dealing with digital games that engage with the past, one inevitably steps into the academic field of historical game studies (Chapman 2016a). Nonetheless, of course, ‘history’ is not the only proper theoretical perspective to look at... more
The text presents the results of a study of stories about everyday life during the last years of the socialist past (1983-1989) by representatives of a specific professional group-'Estrada musicians'. The main goal is to highlight the... more
This paper seeks to map theoretical and practical preoccupations in the contemporary relationship between places of commemoration and more abstract spaces of Holocaust memory. While the range of this topic is broad, I narrow the scope by... more
Downloadable from the conference website (p. 22-23 in the Abstract Book)
The aim of this article is to present a succinct review and evaluation of the main areas of contention in the false memory debate and, from this basis, to suggest ways in which the best from both sides can be utilized. We examine the... more
paper given at Archaeologies of Media and Film conference, University of Bradford / National Media Museum, 4 September 2014
The images of atrocity, either analog or digital, are always the trace of an encounter between the gaze of a photographer or a cameraman and a human being suffering from the painful effects of man-made violence. The archive images... more
Examines how the cultural memories of nonviolent struggle are articulated through the protest songs that the women at Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp created in the 1980s which have since been shared and globalized through digital... more
This paper examines two case studies: the Holocaust and the Spanish democratic transition. The article examines both historical episodes as examples of "monuments of the past", in relation to public uses of history and politics of memory.... more
Investiga as relacoes entre jornalismo a memoria. Para tanto, parte-se dos pressupostos colocados por Maurice Halbwachs, de que a memoria e sempre construida a partir do presente, e tambem aquele colocado por Michael Pollak, de que a... more
Shared memory is preserved and transmitted by various mediums, occasionally institutionalized for its transmission and in other cases as collection of personal memories. The environment in which this recognition is done is important,... more
It is often claimed that modern media massively return the repressed yet unavoidable fact of death, which modernity had institutionalised and placed out of sight. Death is everywhere in the media age: in news, in fiction, and not least in... more
The paper highlights a number of cultural shifts in how information, memory, and history are produced in the digital age. Discusses perspectives on how society is “remembering” via the new digital media that media our public lives.
PAMIĘĆ PROTETYCZNA, 1) w ujęciu Alison Landsberg oznacza → wspomnienia osobiste jednostek nabywane w rezultacie osobistego → doświadczenia odbioru audiowizualnych i wielozmysłowych wytworów kultury masowej (oglądanie → filmu, serialu... more
This study explores the ways in which commercialmedia perceive and manifest their public mnemonic role. It does so via an exploration of the ‘‘memorymenu’’—the contents and flow of programming—offered by Channel 2, Israel’s leading... more
Technological developments have led to a rethinking of how obsolete media should be treated when it becomes relatively inaccessible. This article focuses on Video Home System (VHS) videocassettes in digital culture. Using semi-structured... more
"The French contemporary artist Pierre Huyghe enjoys international acclaim, witness the many one-person and group exhibitions in which his work has been featured, and the prizes he has been awarded. His workplace in New York City, where... more
Total Recall (Bell and Gemmell, 2009) is a non-fiction book proposing a vision of a complete digital archive of everything we do, see or hear. Cameras and devices would constantly record out experience, creating a digital copy of one’s... more
This article traces the ways in which the British suffragette Emily Wilding Davison was represented in national newspapers between 1913-the year she died-and 2013, the centenary of her death. We consider the various ways that Davison was... more
O estudo objetiva compreender a memória social do regime militar no Brasil (1964-1985) construída e propagada nos discursos do jornal Folha de S. Paulo. Percurso que procura problematizar mais de meio século da história do jornal ao... more
Building upon the twin premises of the historicity and mediality of memory – individual and collective alike –, this study makes an analytic incursion in the history of memory in terms of the technological media of storing knowledge about... more
This study explores Chinese journalists’ discursive practices of nostalgia in the context of transition and “crisis” of media and the journalism profession in order to understand how the journalistic community looks back and forward at... more
Questo contributo muove da un'analisi comparativa tra la biografia di Alfonso Sabella "Cacciatore di mafiosi" (Mondadori, 2008) e le prime due stagioni della fiction Rai "Il Cacciatore" (2018-2020), tratte dal libro. L'obbiettivo è... more