[Commlist] New issue of Nordic Journal of Media Studies: Media and the Past: Mediating the Past

New issue of Nordic Journal of Media Studies:
Media and the Past: Mediating the Past.

Read and download the issue Open Access: 
https://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publications/nordic-journal-media-studies/media-and-past-mediating-past-vol-8-2026 
<https://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publications/nordic-journal-media-studies/media-and-past-mediating-past-vol-8-2026>

The issue Media and the Past: Mediating the Past starts from the premise 
that the past is not fixed but continuously reinterpreted in relation to 
the present, and it presents the argument that media play a decisive 
role in these processes of collective remembering and meaning-making. By 
shaping how pasts are communicated and contested, media act as key sites 
where collective memory is negotiated and mobilised. We situate the 
seven contributions in the issue within contemporary transformations in 
politics and culture, characterised by a hybrid media environment 
comprised of legacy media, digital platforms, and GenAI, which raises 
new questions about power, authority, and visibility in memory discourses.

Against this backdrop, we introduce the assembled contributions, 
highlighting their shared interest in how engagements with the past 
across different domains are mediated, and outlining their relevance for 
ongoing debates in society as well as media and communication research.


Articles

Media and the past – Mediating the past: Looking back through media in a 
forward-moving world
Manuel Menke & Marie Meier

Posted pasts: Strategic uses of the past in the 2022 Danish and Swedish 
national election campaigns on Facebook
Kalle Eriksson & Marie Meier

Mediating the AIDS crisis: The affective and queer politics of cultural 
memory in film, television, and digital media
Michael Nebeling Petersen

“Like a small trip back to the GDR”? East German evaluations of the 
television serial Weissensee and its authenticity in a dynamic discourse 
landscape
Maria Löblich

Whose story wins? LLM-powered chatbots as sites and agents of 
memory-political contestation and corporate greenwashing
Nuppu Pelevina & Erkki Mervaala

The nostalgic (de)legitimation of sportswashing: Social media and legacy 
media reactions to the Saudi Arabian state takeover of Newcastle United
David Farrell-Banks & Samuel Merrill

Skateboarding memories and social (in)cohesion: Mediated subcultural 
memory and “grey” belonging
Dag Balkmar & Jono Van Belle

Digital afterlives: Tracing the resurrection process of dead online cultures
Lilli Sihvonen & Elina Vaahensalo



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