Digital Memory Studies : Media Pasts in Transition.
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eng
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Text
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313 p.
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9781138639379
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สถาบันพิพิธภัณฑ์การเรียนรู้แห่งชาติ
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Abstract
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.
Table of contents
1.The restless past: an introduction to digital memory and media
SECTION 1
Connectivity
2.Culture of the past: digital connectivity and dispotentiated futures
3.The media end: digital afterlife agencies and techno-existential closure
4.Memory of the multitude: the end of collective memory
5.The Holocaust in the 21st century: digital anxiety transnational cosmopolitanism, and never again genocide without memory
SECTION 2
Archaeology
6.Tempor(e)alities and archive-textures of media-connected memory
7.The underpinning time: from digital memory to network microtemporality
8.Television in and out of time
9.Memory in technoscience: biomedia and the wettability of mnemonic relations
SECTION 3
Economy
10.Iconomy of memory: on remembering as digital, civic and corporate currency
11.Globital memory capital: theorizing digital memory economies
SECTION 4
Archive
12.Memory institutions, the archive and digital disruption?
13.Tensions in the interface: the archive and the digital
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