[ecrea] Publication: New Media, Culture & Society special section: Digital Media - Social Memory

For those interested in the intersection of social media and social
memory, Media, Culture&  Society has just published a special section
with papers studying different field sites in Singapore, Cambodia and
Australia as well among Cuban-Americans in Miami where digitally
networked technologies were used in and for processes of social
remembering.

*Media, Culture&  Society (September 2014 issue, no. 36(6)) special
section: Digital media - social memory*
Guest editors: Christian Pentzold and Christine Lohmeier

Find the special section here:http://mcs.sagepub.com/content/36/6.toc

Background:
In times when all walks of live seem to be mediated, in the ubiquitous
presence of communication devices and ever more ways to produce,
store, remix and distribute messages, the special section assembles
research and thinking on the relationship of social media and social
memory and to ponder on key themes of current as well as future
research. Memory and media are inseparable. Since the very beginnings
of human culture, media have been employed to fix, share and store
expressions and impressions of individual and collective experiences.
Remembrance thus lives and sustains itself in mediated memorable
objects and symbolic representations that become enmeshed and
activated in memory work such as colloquial conversation, ritual
ceremonies, retrospectives or reminiscences. Moreover, from wall
paints and cuneiforms via manuscripts and prints to the rise of
networked electronic infrastructures and digital media,
socio-technical innovations reassemble the practices and materials of
individual and collective commemorations. Taking this continuing twin
relation, the special section captures empirical research that studies
the interplay of current media and social changes and the acts and
artefacts of memory. Given the swift appearance, broad diffusion and
profound impact of novel connective and mobile services and
applications, the special section considers how social media relate to
the ways we ‘do’ memory.

TOC:

Media, Culture&  Society (September 2014, issue 36, no. 6: pp.
745-809). Special section: Digital media - social memory. Guest
editors: Christian Pentzold and Christine Lohmeier

Emily Keightley and Philip Schlesinger
Digital media – social memory: remembering in digitally networked times
Media, Culture&  Society September 2014 36: 745-747,
doi:10.1177/0163443714532985

Anna Reading
Seeing red: a political economy of digital memory
Media, Culture&  Society September 2014 36: 748-760,
doi:10.1177/0163443714532980

Kai Khiun Liew, Natalie Pang, and Brenda Chan
Industrial railroad to digital memory routes: remembering the last
railway in Singapore
Media, Culture&  Society September 2014 36: 761-775, 2014
doi:10.1177/0163443714532984

Christine Lohmeier and Christian Pentzold
Making mediated memory work: Cuban-Americans, Miami media and the
doings of diaspora memories
Media, Culture&  Society September 2014 36: 776-789, 2014
doi:10.1177/0163443713518574

Stephanie Benzaquen
Looking at the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes, Cambodia, on
Flickr and YouTube
Media, Culture&  Society September 2014 36: 790-809, 2014
doi:10.1177/0163443714532983

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Dr. Christian Pentzold

Lecturer
Technische Universität Chemnitz, Institute for Media Research

Associate Researcher
Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet&  Society, Berlin

Fon: +49-(0)371-531-38798
Fax: +49-(0)371-531-27429
christian.pentzold [at] hiig.de
www.christianpentzold.de


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