[Commlist] Call for Papers: Routledge Companion to Media and Memory

*Call for Papers: Routledge Companion to Media and Memory*
*Deadline for Abstracts: 15 December 2024*


We are seeking chapter proposals for the /Routledge Companion to Media 
and Memory,/ edited by Joanne Garde-Hansen and Red Chidgey. With over 
50+ global contributions, this volume will create an essential resource 
for engaging with established, emergent and future directions in media 
and memory research. Covering diverse media, cultural and communication 
forms, practices and discourse, the /Companion/ will include chapters on 
cinema, television, music, gaming, social media, journalism, as well as 
museums, heritage, fan-made texts, digital innovation and advanced 
global media production.
After a first round of commissioning chapters, we are seeking further 
contributions. We especially welcome work positioned outside of the 
global north and/or that engages with the desired topics outlined below. 
We also encourage contributions that embed and explore feminist, queer, 
decolonial, anti-racist, environmental, disability-informed and 
capital-critical perspectives.
The book will be organised into five sections:
*Introductory Chapter//*(Red Chidgey and Jo Garde-Hansen)
*Section 1, “Media Forms, Practices and Audiences” (5000 words)* will 
provide readers with a critical overview of literature on particular 
forms, practices and audience understandings, underpinned by a 
research-led case study focus. _Desired topics include but are not 
limited to_: migration and documentary filmmaking; advertising, branding 
and memory; cinema and memory; indigenous media and memory work.
*Section 2, “Media Memory Industries and Institutions”* *(5000 words) * 
establishes the connection between memory work and industry. _Desired 
topics include but are not limited to_: Netflix and nostalgic 
programming; EU right to be forgotten; copyright, intellectual property 
and memory; transmedia and immersive memory; the memory worker in media 
industries; how media organisations/corporations remember themselves.
*Section 3, “Creativity and Critique”* *(5000 words) *creates a space to 
propose new theoretical approaches to the study of media and memory, 
alongside new practitioner practices and innovations within the creative 
industries, media, art and heritage sectors. _Desired topics include but 
are not limited to:_ decolonising media memory studies; use of AI, 
augmented reality, virtual reality and web 3.0 in creative and artistic 
memory-led approaches; DIY and fan-made memories; memory and the metaverse.
**
*Section 4, “Methods and Research Practices”* *(4000 words) *reflexively 
explores ways of working with media for memory-informed research. These 
contributions will introduce readers to new methodologies that they can 
use in their own practice. _Desired topics include but are not limited 
to_: data diaries; deep listening; social media-based methods; 
collaborative and co-designed approaches; open heritage gamification; 
rapid response collecting; mass-observation archives; slow methods; 
remembering embodied experiences of war, violence or abuse through 
creative practice.
*Section 5, “Media, Memory, World-Building and Activism”* *(5000 
words)* engages with activist-informed case studies and sets out a 
vision for future concerns in the field of media and memory. _Desired 
topics include but are not limited to_: uses of memory by far-right 
political actors; disinformation, deep-fakes and memory; social media 
mediations of memory and war/occupation; digital and non-digital memory 
innovations by activists; manifestos and provocations for future studies 
in media and memory research.

_Contributor Timeframe_
__

  * *15 December 2024* – *abstract*, to include title of contribution,
    the proposed section and proposed approach [500 words max] and
    *author bio* [150 words max, to include your institutional
    affiliation (if applicable), email address and ORCID-number (if you
    have one).
  * *31 January 2025* – proposal acceptance and contracting
  * *30 June 2025* - contributors submit first drafts of chapters
  * *30 September 2025* - editors return annotated drafts to authors for
    revision
  * *30 November 2025 *- contributors submit final drafts

Please submit an abstract and bio [see guidance above] by *15 December 
2024* to the co-editors at (j.garde-hansen /at/ leeds.ac.uk) and 
(red.chidgey /at/ kcl.ac.uk) with the subject line ‘Media Memory Chapter 
Proposal’. Please include both co-editors on your email submission. Feel 
free to email with any questions in advance of the submission date.


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