Hybrid Memory
Mnemonic Practices and Agencies in a Post-Digital World
Will be published approx. on 17. December 2026
Book
Hardback
978-90-04-77355-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volume shows that memory today is postdigitally hybrid, shaped by the interaction of agencies and practices that graduate between those of a more digital and less digital character. It interrogates the digital inflection of what and how we remember, and argues that memory always stretches across people, places, and platforms. The volume stands out by combining theory with empirical case studies on memorials, museums and archives; mnemonic communities and groups, and autobiographies, algorithms and remembering. Bridging digital and traditional Memory Studies by substantiating the key concept of Hybrid Memory the volume reshapes the field and helps us understand how memory today is hybridly co-created with digital technology, media and data.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-90-04-77355-4 (9789004773554)
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Robin Ekelund is an Associate Professor in history at Malmoe University, Sweden. His research concerns contemporary memory practices, historical culture and uses of the past with a specific interest in digital technology and social media.
Gunn?orunn Gu?mundsdottir is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland. Her research focusses on contemporary literature, life writing, memory studies, and the negotiations of memory and forgetting in culture.
Samuel Merrill is an Associate Professor at Umea University's Department of Sociology and the Centre for Digital Social Research (DIGSUM). His research interests concern, among other things, the intersections between memory, heritage, politics, activism, and digital technology and media.
Tea Sindbaek Andersen teaches East European Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on the contemporary history of Southeastern Europe, particularly on issues related to cultural memory, uses of history, identity politics, popular culture and environmental politics.
Gunn?orunn Gu?mundsdottir is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland. Her research focusses on contemporary literature, life writing, memory studies, and the negotiations of memory and forgetting in culture.
Samuel Merrill is an Associate Professor at Umea University's Department of Sociology and the Centre for Digital Social Research (DIGSUM). His research interests concern, among other things, the intersections between memory, heritage, politics, activism, and digital technology and media.
Tea Sindbaek Andersen teaches East European Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on the contemporary history of Southeastern Europe, particularly on issues related to cultural memory, uses of history, identity politics, popular culture and environmental politics.