Digital memory studies : media pasts in transition /

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 interdisciplina...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hoskins, Andrew, 1967- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • The restless past : an introduction to digital memory and media / Andrew Hoskins
  • Section 1: Connectivity. Culture of the past : digital connectivity and dispotentiated futures / Martin Pogacar ; The media end : digital afterlife agencies and techno-existential closure / Amanda Lagerkvist ; Memory of the multitude : the end of collective memory / Andrew Hoskins ; The holocaust in the 21st century : digital anxiety, cosmopolitanism on steroids, and never again genocide without memory / Wulf Kansteiner
  • Section 2: Archaeology. Tempor(e)alities and archive-textures of media-connected memory / Wolfgang Ernst ; The underpinning time : from digital memory to network microtemporality / Jussi Parikka ; Television in and out of time / Timothy Barker ; Memory in technoscience : biomedia and the wettability of mnemonic relations / Matthew Allen
  • Section 3: Economy. Iconomy of memory : on remembering as digital, civic and corporate currency / Joanne Garde-Hansen and Gilson Schwartz ; Globital memory capital : exploring digital memory economies / Anna Reading and Tanya Notley
  • Section 4: Archive. Memory institutions, the archive and digital disruption? / Michael Moss ; Tensions in the interface : the archive and the digital / Debra Ramsay.