[Commlist] CfA Communicating Memory Matters SI / Memory, Mind & Media

          Call for Abstracts: Memory, Mind & Media Special Issue
          "Communicating Memory Matters in Networked Environments"

          Special Guest Editors: Christine Lohmeier (University of
          Salzburg, Austria) & Christian Pentzold (Leipzig University,
          Germany)


          Memory is a communicative affair. Throughout history, a
          growing diversity of symbols and genres of communication have
          shaped how we come to remember and forget the past. Indeed,
          memory comes to matter when it is communicated: people connect
          to a collective past, return to personal reminiscences, and
          revive bygone moments but also impair, inhibit, or prevent
          memories by way of communication. It is the prime mode through
          which the past is enacted in the present. Unsurprisingly, the
          majority of studies into the practice of lived remembering
          operate with a notion of communicative memory, often in
          conjunction with the kindred concept of cultural memory.

          The special issue of Memory, Mind & Media will interrogate the
          current forms of communicative memory making. It starts from
          the idea that while communication is at the heart of
          commemoration processes, it has recently been sidelined by a
          focus on (media) technologies. These rapidly changing material
          environments attracted much scholarly attention around
          questions of living digital archives, virtual memory places,
          and media archaeology. Yet the actual communicative exchanges
          that happen on the cognitive level, in the often
          machine-mediated interactions between people, and the social
          realm at-large have received considerably less interest.

          The special issue invites contributions that address the ways
          in which data, services, and platforms enable communicative
          remembering across the scale from micro-level mental
          operations to macro-level societal processes. We assume that
          transforming media will leave their mark on how we engage with
          the past, interact with others, employ artifacts and
          documents, and thus construct memories. We also believe that
          memory making within and through these technologies means
          inclusion of some people and groups and exclusion of others.
          Reconsidering how communicative remembering has changed and
          how it is done today will also allow us to scrutinize some
          standard distinctions on which the field is built. Hence,
          dichotomies such as communicative memory versus cultural
          memory, personal versus family versus public memory, cognitive
          memory versus social memory seem in need of re-thinking and
          renewal when considered from the point of digitally networked
          communication. With its focus on the active side of
          remembrance, the special issue aims at a tenet of memory
          studies yet it promises to also reach out to connate
          disciplines which share this interest, like cognitive science
          and psychology, science and technology studies, communication,
          political science, anthropology, and sociology.

          Papers could address but are not limited to the following themes:

            * conceptualization of memory work in times of networked
              media environments
            * processes of inclusion and exclusion in acts of
              communicative remembering
            * the formation of new memory collectives
            * the impact of digital communication on remembering and
              forgetting in-between the individual and the collective level
            * continuities and changes in communicative remembering and
              forgetting within complex networked communication
            * the activities and positions of (new) memory agents in
              networked environments
            * collaborative memory and communication among families,
              couples, small and large groups


          Timeline and procedure

          500 to 700 word abstracts should be sent to
          (communicatingmemorymatters /at/ plus.ac.at)
          <mailto:(communicatingmemorymatters /at/ plus.ac.at)> by October 3,
          2022. The abstract should articulate: 1) the issue or research
          question to be discussed, 2) the methodological or critical
          framework used, and 3) the expected findings or conclusions.
          Feel free to consult with the Special Issue Editors about your
          article ideas and potential angles or approaches.

          Decisions will be communicated to the authors by November 15,
          2022. Invited paper submissions will be due May 2, 2023 and
          will be submitted directly to the submission site for Memory,
          Mind & Media: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mmm
          <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mmm> where they will undergo
          peer review following the usual procedures of Memory, Mind &
          Media. The invitation to submit a full article does not
          guarantee acceptance into the special issue. The special issue
          is scheduled for publication in early 2024.

No publication fees will be required.


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