Exploring Text, Media, and Memory
Title | Exploring Text, Media, and Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Patrizia Lombardo |
Publisher | Aarhus Universitetsforlag |
Pages | 560 |
Release | 2018-12-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 8771845828 |
Exploring Text, Media and Memory investigates the link between memory and media by asking a series of questions pertinent to our time: How do individual and collective memories blend? How do traumatic experiences from past events and catastrophic projections of the future reveal the human condition in the epoch of frenetic technological reproduction of works of art? How is the human body tied to narrations - and why? A group of international scholars tackle questions like these across art forms, media, and cultural history. In nineteen essays they argue that modern and contemporary literary texts and visual arts show how photography, film, tape recording, television, and internet are not just means of storing memory and information, but objects that we interact with every day - challenging static visions of places and the linear notions of past, present and future.
Exploring Text, Media, and Memory
Title | Exploring Text, Media, and Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Lars Sætre |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Memory in art |
ISBN | 9788771843873 |
Exploring Text, Media and Memory investigates the link between memory and media by asking a series of questions pertinent to our time: How do individual and collective memories blend? How do traumatic experiences from past events and catastrophic projections of the future reveal the human condition in the epoch of frenetic technological reproduction of works of art? How is the human body tied to narrations - and why? A group of international scholars tackle questions like these across art forms, media, and cultural history. In nineteen essays they argue that modern and contemporary literary texts and visual arts show how photography, film, tape recording, television, and internet are not just means of storing memory and information, but objects that we interact with every day - challenging static visions of places and the linear notions of past, present and future.
Media and Memory
Title | Media and Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Joanne Garde-Hansen |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 2011-06-29 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0748647074 |
How do we rely on media for remembering? In exploring the complex ways that media converge to support our desire to capture, store and retrieve memories, this textbook offers analyses of representations of memorable events, media tools for remembering and forgetting, media technologies for archiving and the role of media producers in making memories. Theories of memory and media are covered alongside an accessible range of case studies focusing on memory in relation to radio, television, pop music, celebrity, digital media and mobile phones. Ethnographic and production culture research, including interviews with members of the public and industry professionals, is also included. Offering a comprehensive introduction to the connections and disconnections in the study of media and memory, this is the perfect textbook for media studies students.
On Media Memory
Title | On Media Memory PDF eBook |
Author | M. Neiger |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2011-04-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0230307078 |
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).
Media and Memory
Title | Media and Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Joanne Garde-Hansen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Mass media |
ISBN | 9780748670949 |
In exploring the complex ways that media converge to support our desire to capture, store and retrieve memories, this book offers analyses of representations of memorable events, media tools for remembering and forgetting, media technologies for archiving and the role of media producers in making memories.
Digital Memory and the Archive
Title | Digital Memory and the Archive PDF eBook |
Author | Wolfgang Ernst |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2012-12-20 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1452933952 |
In the popular imagination, archives are remote, largely obsolete institutions: either antiquated, inevitably dusty libraries or sinister repositories of personal secrets maintained by police states. Yet the archive is now a ubiquitous feature of digital life. Rather than being deleted, e-mails and other computer files are archived. Media software and cloud storage allow for the instantaneous cataloging and preservation of data, from music, photographs, and videos to personal information gathered by social media sites. In this digital landscape, the archival-oriented media theories of Wolfgang Ernst are particularly relevant. Digital Memory and the Archive, the first English-language collection of the German media theorist’s work, brings together essays that present Ernst’s controversial materialist approach to media theory and history. His insights are central to the emerging field of media archaeology, which uncovers the role of specific technologies and mechanisms, rather than content, in shaping contemporary culture and society. Ernst’s interrelated ideas on the archive, machine time and microtemporality, and the new regimes of memory offer a new perspective on both current digital culture and the infrastructure of media historical knowledge. For Ernst, different forms of media systems—from library catalogs to sound recordings—have influenced the content and understanding of the archive and other institutions of memory. At the same time, digital archiving has become a contested site that is highly resistant to curation, thus complicating the creation and preservation of cultural memory and history.
Digital Memory Studies
Title | Digital Memory Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Hoskins |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2017-09-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317267419 |
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 interdisciplinary interventions. Digital Memory Studies seizes this challenge and pioneers an agenda that interrogates concepts, theories and histories of media and memory studies, to map a holistic vision for the study of the digital remaking of memory. Through the lenses of connectivity, archaeology, economy, and archive, contributors illuminate the uses and abuses of the digital past via an array of media and topics, including television, videogames and social media, and memory institutions, network politics and the digital afterlife.