The Routledge Companion to Media and Memory
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 14. December 2026
Book
Hardback
522 pages
978-1-032-54182-2 (ISBN)
Description
The Routledge Companion to Media and Memory is an essential guide to one of the most dynamic and influential areas of contemporary scholarship. Bringing together leading international experts from across the arts, humanities and social sciences, it maps the evolving relationship between media forms, practices, technologies and ethics, to explore how individuals, communities, states and corporations make claim to memory.
Across 42 original essays, the companion offers a cutting-edge introduction to key debates, methods and developments in the field, from AI memory and media memory industries to creative practice and political activism. This volume showcases how memory is shaped, circulated, contested and preserved through diverse media, including film, television, photography, digital platforms, video games, graphic novels, and emerging media forms. It highlights the power of media to construct collective identities, influence public understanding of the past, and frame the stories societies choose to tell, and forget.
Designed for researchers, students and heritage practitioners, The Routledge Companion to Media and Memory provides an essential foundation for understanding how media and memory intersect in a world where the past is constantly being remediated. It is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to grasp the cultural forces that define how we remember today.
Across 42 original essays, the companion offers a cutting-edge introduction to key debates, methods and developments in the field, from AI memory and media memory industries to creative practice and political activism. This volume showcases how memory is shaped, circulated, contested and preserved through diverse media, including film, television, photography, digital platforms, video games, graphic novels, and emerging media forms. It highlights the power of media to construct collective identities, influence public understanding of the past, and frame the stories societies choose to tell, and forget.
Designed for researchers, students and heritage practitioners, The Routledge Companion to Media and Memory provides an essential foundation for understanding how media and memory intersect in a world where the past is constantly being remediated. It is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to grasp the cultural forces that define how we remember today.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate
Illustrations
38 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 38 s/w Abbildungen
38 Halftones, black and white; 38 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-032-54182-2 (9781032541822)
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Persons
Red Chidgey is Reader in Gender, Media and Culture at King's College London, UK. Their research explores the intersections of media, memory and activism. They are the author of Feminist Afterlives: Assemblage Memory in Activist Times (2018) and Museums, Archives and Protest Memory (with Joanne Garde-Hansen, 2024).
Joanne Garde-Hansen is Professor of Culture, Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research focuses on Media and Memory Studies. Her book Media and Memory (2011) was translated into Chinese in 2023. She published Media and Water (2021) and Museums, Archives and Protest Memory (with Red Chidgey, 2024).
Joanne Garde-Hansen is Professor of Culture, Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research focuses on Media and Memory Studies. Her book Media and Memory (2011) was translated into Chinese in 2023. She published Media and Water (2021) and Museums, Archives and Protest Memory (with Red Chidgey, 2024).
Content
Introduction: Media Memory, Everywhere and All at Once Part I: Media Memory Industries and Institutions 1. Ambiguities of Algorithmic Memory 2. Memory and Artificial Intelligence: Towards a Critical Materialist Approach and an Ethics of Care 3. Memory and Digitized Mourning: The Affective Entanglements of Grief-Tech 4. Remembering Machine Learning's Memories of Women on Screen 5. Pandemic and Collective Memory: Between Institutional Commemoration and TikTok Vernaculars 6. Netflix and the Nostalgia Economy in Latin America 7. The Neglected Dimension? Memory and Transmedia Tourism 8. Creative Gaming Entrepreneurship: Unlocking Suspended Memories of Politically Censored Pasts Part II: Media Memory Forms, Practices and Audiences 9. Neurodiversity, Media and Memory 10. Reading Colonial Aphasia through Comics: The Multi-Directional Memory of Slavery in Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez's Wake 11. (Re-)Playing Yugoslavia: Memory Mediation in Independent Video Games 12. (Dis)Remembering Colonial Violence in Journalism: An Emergent Field of Research 13. Violence and Smiles: Visual Tropes and Affect in the Photography of Perpetration 14. Patriotic Education through Film: Memory, Ideology and Nationalistic Sentiments in China 15. Audience Remediation of the Past: Mainland Chinese Young People Rewatching Taiwanese Idol Dramas on Social Media 16. 'Long Live': Remembering Star Trek and The Lord of the Rings through Vidding Taylor Swift 17. 'In the Pines': The Inadvertent Archives of a Folk Song Part III: Creativity and Critique 18. Inadvertent Memory: Beyond the Commemorative Realm 19. DeepStory, NFTs and Tamagotchis: Reconceptualizing Memory Objects in Contemporary Media Environments 20. Container Technologies, Memory and the World 21. Extended Cinema as Decolonial Form of Memory Media 22. Afrofuturist Remembering: Mediated Archives and the Data Subject 23. Synthetic Memory and Algorithmic Afterlives in the Age of Generative AI 24. Holding Memories: Everyday Objects as Tactile Archives 25. Memorializing Gaming's Growing Pains: Ambivalent Nostalgia in Videogame Culture Part IV: Methods and Approaches 26. A Biocentric Approach to Memory: Collaborative Memory Production with Indigenous Communities in Brazil 27. Memory Sounds: Connected Listening Across Age(s) 28. Methods: Web Archive as Embedded Memories 29. Remembering while Scrolling: The Scroll-Back Interview as Digital Memory Work Method 30. Holocaust Memory in Play: A New Framework for Video Game Analysis 31. Bringing Television History Home: Archive, Memory, Place 32. Radio, Acoustic Memory and the Legacy of David Oluwale 33. From Pictures to Memories and Back: Unlocking Memories and Sharing Dialogues with Children Part V: Activism and Political Imagination 34. Platforming Memory: Online Testimony and the Collective Remembrance of Sexual Violence 35. "Ashes Feel like Freedom": Plantation Fire as Mediated Memory and Racial Reckoning 36. Activist Memories, Community Archives and the Anti-Racist Political Imagination 37. Archiving Narratives of Conflict: TikTok, Memory and the Documentation of War in Ukraine 38. 'Stolen Lives': On Live Memory and Transmedia Activism 39. Tuvalu Under Tears, Ocean and Construction: Media Discourse on the First Nation that Will Become Virtual 40. Sustaining Memory Activism through Citizen Science after Fukushima 41. Far-Right Digital Memory Activism: Emergent Trends in the (Mis)Appropriation of Human Rights Discourse in Post-Dictatorial Chile 42. Memory in a Future of AI-Generated Content and Visual Politics