Media and Memory

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Edinburgh University Press, Jun 29, 2011 - Social Science - 184 pages
Covers the variety of complex ways that media engage with memory.
 

Contents

Mediating the Past
1
Part 1 Theoretical Background
11
1 Memory Studies and Media Studies
13
2 Personal Collective Mediated and New Memory Discourses
31
Institutions Forms and Practices
50
The Democratisation of Archives
70
Part 2 Case Studies
89
BBC Radio 4 and the Aberfan Disaster of 1963
91
Remixing War on YouTube
105
Celebrity Ageing and Fan Nostalgia
120
The Photo Album Goes Mobile
136
Bibliography
151
Index
169
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About the author (2011)

Joanne Garde-Hansen is Principal Lecturer in Media and Director of Research Centre of Media, Memory and Community (University of Gloucestershire). She is involved in a number of research projects focused on media and memory: flood memories, the Dennis Potter Heritage Project, geography and memory, media, emotion and intimacy, and gypsy, roma, traveller memories. She has published on digital media and memory, media archives, celebrity memory and older women in media.

Bibliographic information

TitleMedia and Memory
Media Topics Series
AuthorJoanne Garde-Hansen
Editionillustrated
PublisherEdinburgh University Press, 2011
ISBN0748688889, 9780748688883
Length184 pages
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Social Science / Media Studies
  
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