Digital Memory Studies

Digital Memory Studies
Author: Andrew Hoskins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2017-09-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317267419

Digital media, networks and archives reimagine and revitalize individual, social and cultural memory but they also ensnare it, bringing it under new forms of control. Understanding these paradoxical conditions of remembering and forgetting through today’s technologies needs bold interdisciplinary interventions. Digital Memory Studies seizes this challenge and pioneers an agenda that interrogates concepts, theories and histories of media and memory studies, to map a holistic vision for the study of the digital remaking of memory. Through the lenses of connectivity, archaeology, economy, and archive, contributors illuminate the uses and abuses of the digital past via an array of media and topics, including television, videogames and social media, and memory institutions, network politics and the digital afterlife.

Digital Memory Studies

Digital Memory Studies
Author: Andrew Hoskins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2017
Genre: Collective memory
ISBN: 9781138639386

Andrew Hoskins: The restless past: an introduction to digital memory and media -- Connectivity. Martin Pogacar: Culture of the past: digital connectivity and dispotentiated futures -- Amanda Lagerkvist: The media end: digital afterlife agencies and techno-existential closure -- Andrew Hoskins: Memory of the multitude: the end of collective memory -- Wulf Kansteiner: The holocaust in the 21st century: digital anxiety, cosmopolitanism on steroids, and never again genocide without memory -- Archaeology. Wolfgang Ernst: Tempor(e)alities and archive-textures of media-connected memory -- Jussi Parikka: The underpinning time: from digital memory to network microtemporality -- Timothy Barker: Television in and out of time -- Matthew Allen: Memory in technoscience: biomedia and the wettability of mnemonic relations -- Economy. Joanne Garde-Hansen and Gilson Schwartz: Iconomy of memory: on remembering as digital, civic and corporate currency -- Anna Reading and Tanya Notley: "Globital"' memory capital: exploring digital memory economies -- Archive. Michael Moss: Memory institutions, the archive and digital disruption? -- Debra Ramsay: Tensions in the interface: the archive and the digital

Digital Memory Studies

Digital Memory Studies
Author: Andrew Hoskins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2017
Genre: Collective memory
ISBN: 9781138639379

Andrew Hoskins: The restless past: an introduction to digital memory and media -- Connectivity. Martin Pogacar: Culture of the past: digital connectivity and dispotentiated futures -- Amanda Lagerkvist: The media end: digital afterlife agencies and techno-existential closure -- Andrew Hoskins: Memory of the multitude: the end of collective memory -- Wulf Kansteiner: The holocaust in the 21st century: digital anxiety, cosmopolitanism on steroids, and never again genocide without memory -- Archaeology. Wolfgang Ernst: Tempor(e)alities and archive-textures of media-connected memory -- Jussi Parikka: The underpinning time: from digital memory to network microtemporality -- Timothy Barker: Television in and out of time -- Matthew Allen: Memory in technoscience: biomedia and the wettability of mnemonic relations -- Economy. Joanne Garde-Hansen and Gilson Schwartz: Iconomy of memory: on remembering as digital, civic and corporate currency -- Anna Reading and Tanya Notley: "Globital"' memory capital: exploring digital memory economies -- Archive. Michael Moss: Memory institutions, the archive and digital disruption? -- Debra Ramsay: Tensions in the interface: the archive and the digital

Digital Memory and the Archive

Digital Memory and the Archive
Author: Wolfgang Ernst
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2012-12-20
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1452933952

In the popular imagination, archives are remote, largely obsolete institutions: either antiquated, inevitably dusty libraries or sinister repositories of personal secrets maintained by police states. Yet the archive is now a ubiquitous feature of digital life. Rather than being deleted, e-mails and other computer files are archived. Media software and cloud storage allow for the instantaneous cataloging and preservation of data, from music, photographs, and videos to personal information gathered by social media sites. In this digital landscape, the archival-oriented media theories of Wolfgang Ernst are particularly relevant. Digital Memory and the Archive, the first English-language collection of the German media theorist’s work, brings together essays that present Ernst’s controversial materialist approach to media theory and history. His insights are central to the emerging field of media archaeology, which uncovers the role of specific technologies and mechanisms, rather than content, in shaping contemporary culture and society. Ernst’s interrelated ideas on the archive, machine time and microtemporality, and the new regimes of memory offer a new perspective on both current digital culture and the infrastructure of media historical knowledge. For Ernst, different forms of media systems—from library catalogs to sound recordings—have influenced the content and understanding of the archive and other institutions of memory. At the same time, digital archiving has become a contested site that is highly resistant to curation, thus complicating the creation and preservation of cultural memory and history.

Save As... Digital Memories

Save As... Digital Memories
Author: J. Garde-Hansen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2009-05-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230239412

This groundbreaking and truly interdisciplinary collection of essays examines how digital media technologies require us to rethink established conceptualisations of human memory in terms of its discourses, forms and practices.

Mediated Memories in the Digital Age

Mediated Memories in the Digital Age
Author: José van Dijck
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2007
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780804756242

This book studies how our personal memory is transformed as a result of technological and cultural transformations: digital photo cameras, camcorders, and multimedia computers inevitably change the way we remember and affect conventional forms of recollection.

Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media

Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media
Author: Samuel Merrill
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2020-02-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030328279

This collected volume is the first to study the interface between contemporary social movements, cultural memory and digital media. Establishing the digital memory work practices of social movements as an important area of research, it reveals how activists use digital media to lay claim to, circulate and curate cultural memories. Interdisciplinary in scope, its contributors address mobilizations of mediated remembrance in the USA, Germany, Sweden, Italy, India, Argentina, the UK and Russia.

Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age

Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age
Author: Jeffrey Shandler
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2017-09-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1503602966

Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age explores the nexus of new media and memory practices, raising questions about how advances in digital technologies continue to influence the nature of Holocaust memorialization. Through an in-depth study of the largest and most widely available collection of videotaped interviews with survivors and other witnesses to the Holocaust, the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive, Jeffrey Shandler weighs the possibilities and challenges brought about by digital forms of public memory. The Visual History Archive's holdings are extensive—over 100,000 hours of video, including interviews with over 50,000 individuals—and came about at a time of heightened anxiety about the imminent passing of the generation of Holocaust survivors and other eyewitnesses. Now, the Shoah Foundation's investment in new digital media is instrumental to its commitment to remembering the Holocaust both as a subject of historical importance in its own right and as a paradigmatic moral exhortation against intolerance. Shandler not only considers the Archive as a whole, but also looks closely at individual survivors' stories, focusing on narrative, language, and spectacle to understand how Holocaust remembrance is mediated.

Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory

Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory
Author: Astrid Erll
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2009
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110204444

The specific concern of this collection is linking the use of media to the larger socio-cultural processes involved in collective memory-making. The focus rests in particular on two aspects of media use: the basic dynamics of mediation and remediation. The key questions are: What role do media play in the production and circulation of cultural memories? How do mediation, remediation and intermediality shape objects and acts of cultural remembrance? How can new, emergent media redefine or transform what is collectively remembered?