Conflict Memory and Media
Description
This book seeks to advance the discussion about the role of media in conflict memory work. In recent years the 'connective turn' has 'unmoored' memory from traditional institutions, replacing it with a searchable 'memory of the multitude' online. The automated systems of online platforms like Facebook 'dig' for memories on behalf of their users. Historical photographs shared on photo sharing sites like Instagram facilitate informal learning about events such as the Holocaust among younger generations. This has empowered a new generation of memory activists who leverage the affordances of online platforms for commemoration rituals. More recently, apps like Telegram have made it easier to document human rights violations during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, whilst simultaneously creating a curated, unsanitized 'war feed' for global audiences. The chapters in this collection explore how both analogue and digital media have been used to shape collective memories of conflicts in countries including Brazil, Israel-Palestine, Nigeria, Portugal and Ukraine.
Chapter 9 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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Persons
Paul Reilly is Senior Lecturer in Communications, Media and Democracy at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow.
Virpi Salojärvi is Senior Research at the University of Vaasa and the Helsinki Hub on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation (HEPP), University of Helsinki. She is also University Lecturer in Communication Studies at the University of Eastern Finland.
Cairsti Russell is Lecturer in Sociological and Cultural Studies at the University of Glasgow and a member of the Glasgow University Media Group (GUMG).
Content
Chapter 1: The Path to Conflict Memory Debate in Romania: Media Coverage of the Soviet Occupation.- Chapter 2: Unfading Echoes: Journalism as the Guardian of Brazilian Tragedies' Collective Memory.- Chapter 3: Visualising the Dersim Massacre.- Chapter 4: Troubling Images: Bloody Sunday and its Photographic Aftermath.- Chapter 5: Life During Wartime: Remembering the Northern Irish Troubles through Historical Photographs on Instagram.- Chapter 6: War by Another Means: News Media and Collective Memories of the Israel-Palestine Conflict.- Chapter 7: Migrations, Media, and Memory Activisms: Ongoing Dialogues in a Multidisciplinary Project in Portugal.- Chapter 8: "It Doesn't Hurt Anyone to Be a Bit Patriotic, Even at Bad Points in History": An Analysis of the Postcolonial Debate on the Facebook Pages of Portuguese Media Outlets.- Chapter 9: Construction of Digitally Mediated Memory within YouTube Videos around the History of the Greek Civil War.- Chapter 10: Meme-orialising Civil War: Exploring Audiences' Mnemonic Engagement with Memes about the Troubles in Northern Ireland.- Chapter 11: Social Media Ephemeral Stories: Memory, Young Nigerians and Their Struggle Against Police Brutality.- Chapter 12: From the Victory Day to the Unfriending Day: Digital Memory and the Disconnective Turn.- Chapter 13: Battle of Memories: Actualisation of the Past in Russian and Ukrainian Memes in the Context of the Russia-Ukraine War.- Chapter 14: Embedded Digital War Memories: Gazans' Practices on Digital Space to Prevent Forgetting Traumatic Events.