[Air-L] New Publication - Memory in a Mediated World (Palgrave)

[Christian Pentzold]

Hello everyone,

I thought this new publication might be of interest to some on this list.

Best,
Christian

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Andrea Hajek, Christine Lohmeier, Christian Pentzold (eds): Memory in  
a Mediated World. Remembrance and Reconstruction (2016, Palgrave  
Macmillan)

In times when public and private spheres are mediated more than ever,  
this volume looks at the way personal and collective memories are  
employed to revise and reconstruct old and new forms of individual and  
social life. Considering both retrospective memories and the  
prospective employment of memories, Memory in a Mediated World  
examines troubled times that demand resolution, recovery and  
restoration. The chapters assembled in this volume provide empirically  
grounded analyses of how media are employed by individuals and social  
groups to connect the past, the present and the future. The volume  
argues that experiences of private or public crisis often allow for a  
projective use of memories, be they individual or collective. Hence,  
contrary to the idea that such states of exception eliminate memories,  
the volume examines the ways in which memories in and of traumatic,  
conflictual or incisive events and experiences are addressed through a  
productive employment of past experiences, ideas, relationships or  
strategies.

"Nowhere does social memory matter as much as in troubled times. This  
book brings together a diverse group of scholars who consider the  
roles played by collective memory in affecting the unsettled  
circumstances that follow upon natural disaster, war, uprising and  
other kinds of crisis. Memory, for these authors, holds enormous  
productive potential, a potential unpacked here in great detail. A  
highly useful intervention on an aspect of memory studies that has not  
been sufficiently examined to date." - Barbie Zelizer, Annenberg  
School for Communication, USA

"This fascinating volume cuts the often inseparable knot that  
associates collective trauma, shared recollections, social crises and  
disintegration. The fresh perspective here suggested aims to define  
the mediation of memory – especially in the digital age – as a fertile  
ground for opportunities to voice, negotiate and reshape personal and  
social identities and to face present and future challenges. The  
comprehensive empirically-based cases explore the promise, which lies  
in contents and processes of mediation, to serve as a bridge over  
troubled water." - Motti Neiger, Netanya Academic College, Israel

"Memory in a Mediated World" makes a positive and new contribution to  
the field of Memory Studies, offering readers original and compelling  
insights into the ways in which digital media especially shapes  
cultures of remembrance in troubled times. By bringing together work  
from Memory Studies' emergent strand on cultural memories of activism,  
alongside media memories of conflict and catastrophe, it pushes the  
21st century Mnemologist and others studying memory to rethink  the  
methods and roots of analyzing media memory." - Anna Reading, King's  
College London, UK

For further information, see:  
http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/Memory-in-a-Mediated-World/?K=9781137470119

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-- 
Dr. Christian Pentzold

Lecturer
Technische Universität Chemnitz, Institute for Media Research

Associate Researcher
Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society, Berlin

Visiting Research Fellow 2015
Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King's College London

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