On Media Memory

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).

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).

Note on Contributors Editors' Introduction PART I: MEDIA MEMORY: THEORY AND METHODOLOGIES Cannibalizing Memory in the Global Flow of News; B.Zelizer The Democratic Potential of Mediated Collective Memory; J.A.Edy 'Round Up the Unusual Suspects': Banal Commemoration and the Role of the Media; V.Vinitzky-Seroussi Media Remembering: The Contribution of Life Story Methodology to Memory/Media Research; J.Bourdon PART II: MEDIA MEMORY, ETHICS AND WITNESSING Between Moral Activism and Archival Memory: The Testimonial Project of 'Breaking the Silence'; T.Katriel & N.Shavit Reclaiming Asaba: Old Media, New Media and the Construction of Memory; S.E.Bird Joint Memory: Mediating Evil and Suffering in a Digital Era; T.Ashuri PART III: MEDIA MEMORY AND POPULAR CULTURE Television and the Imagination of Memory ('Life on Mars'); P.Frosh Life History and National Memory: The Israeli Television Program 'Such a Life' (1972-2001); A.Ben-Amos & J.Bourdon History, Memory, and Means of Communication: The Caseof Jew Süss; N.Sheffi Localizing Collective Memory: Radio Broadcasts and the Construction of Regional Memory; M.Neiger, E.Zandberg & O.Meyers Televising the Sixties in Spain: Memories and Historical Constructions; J.C.R.Laffond PART IV: MEDIA MEMORY, JOURNALISM AND JOURNALISTIC PRACTICE Obamabilia and the Historic Moment: Institutional Authority and 'Deeply Consequential Memory' in Keepsake Journalism; C.Kitch Telling the Unknown through the Familiar: Collective Memory as Journalistic Device in a Changing Media Environment; D.Berkowitz Journalism as an Agent of Prospective Memory; K.Tenenboim-Weinblatt Towards Memory Setting: A Theoretical Examination of the Application of Agenda Setting Methodology to Collective Memory Research; N.K.Vilenchik PART V: NEW MEDIA MEMORY Digital Media, Global Memory: Developing an Epistemology for the Globital; A.Reading Archive, Media, Trauma; A.Pinchevski Mediated Space, Mediated Memory: Reflection, Impasses and Re-presentation at the Holocaust Memorial, Berlin; I.Dekel From Collective to Connective Memory; A.Hoskins Index