On Media Memory Collective Memory in a New Media Age

This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of Media Memory and brings Media and Mediation to the forefront of Collective Memory research. The essays explore a diversity of media technologies (television, radio, film and new media), genres (news, fiction, documentaries) and contexts (US, UK, Spain, Nigeria, Germany and the Middle East).

Motti Neiger is Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication at Netanya Academic College, Israel. He served as the president of the Israel Communication Association (2006-2009) and as the founding editor of Media Frames: Israeli Journal of Communication. His academic interests include various aspects of the correlations between media and culture: mediated collective memory, journalism during conflicts and the role of culture mediators. He has published articles in journals such as Media, Culture Society, Journal of Communication, Journalism and Communication, Culture Critique. Oren Meyers is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication at the University of Haifa, Israel. His research interests include journalistic values and practices, collective memory and popular culture. He has published articles in journals such as Journal of Communication, The Communication Review, Journalism, Journalism Studies, Media, Culture Society and The Journal of Popular Culture. Eyal Zandberg is Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication at Netanya Academic College, Israel. His research interests focus on the interrelations between collective memory and the media, especially on the memory of the Holocaust in popular culture and on journalistic practices during times of war and conflict. He has published articles in journals such as Media, Culture Society, Journal of Communication and Communication, Culture Critique.

Note on Contributors
Editors' Introduction
PART I: MEDIA MEMORY: THEORY AND METHODOLOGIES
Cannibalizing Memory in the Global Flow of News; B.Zelizer
The Democratic Potential of Mediated Collective Memory; J.A.Edy
'Round Up the Unusual Suspects': Banal Commemoration and the Role of the Media; V.Vinitzky-Seroussi
Media Remembering: The Contribution of Life Story Methodology to Memory/Media Research; J.Bourdon
PART II: MEDIA MEMORY, ETHICS AND WITNESSING
Between Moral Activism and Archival Memory: The Testimonial Project of 'Breaking the Silence'; T.Katriel & N.Shavit
Reclaiming Asaba: Old Media, New Media and the Construction of Memory; S.E.Bird
Joint Memory: Mediating Evil and Suffering in a Digital Era; T.Ashuri
PART III: MEDIA MEMORY AND POPULAR CULTURE
Television and the Imagination of Memory ('Life on Mars'); P.Frosh
Life History and National Memory: The Israeli Television Program 'Such a Life' (1972-2001); A.Ben-Amos & J.Bourdon
History, Memory, and Means of Communication: The Case of Jew Süss; N.Sheffi
Localizing Collective Memory: Radio Broadcasts and the Construction of Regional Memory; M.Neiger, E.Zandberg & O.Meyers
Televising the Sixties in Spain: Memories and Historical Constructions; J.C.R.Laffond
PART IV: MEDIA MEMORY, JOURNALISM AND JOURNALISTIC PRACTICE
Obamabilia and the Historic Moment: Institutional Authority and 'Deeply Consequential Memory' in Keepsake Journalism; C.Kitch
Telling the Unknown through the Familiar: Collective Memory as Journalistic Device in a Changing Media Environment; D.Berkowitz
Journalism as an Agent of Prospective Memory; K.Tenenboim-Weinblatt
Towards Memory Setting: A Theoretical Examination of the Application of Agenda Setting Methodology to Collective Memory Research; N.K.Vilenchik
PART V: NEW MEDIA MEMORY
Digital Media, Global Memory: Developing an Epistemology for the Globital; A.Reading
Archive, Media, Trauma; A.Pinchevski
Mediated Space, Mediated Memory: Reflection, Impasses and Re-presentation at the Holocaust Memorial, Berlin; I.Dekel
From Collective to Connective Memory; A.Hoskins
Index