Silence, screen, and spectacle : rethinking social memory in the age of information /

In an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed. This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnem...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Freeman, Lindsey A. (Editor ), Nienass, Benjamin (Editor ), Daniell, Rachel (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2014.
Colección:Remapping cultural history ; v. 14.
Temas:
Mass media and history.
Collective memory.
Memorialization.
Mass media > Technological innovations > Social aspects.
Information technology > Social aspects.
Médias et histoire.
Mémoire collective.
Commémorations.
Médias > Innovations > Aspect social.
Technologie de l'information > Aspect social.
commemorations (events)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Collective memory
Information technology > Social aspects
Mass media and history
Memorialization
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:In an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed. This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese Americans in WWII, the Canadian Indian Residential School system, Israeli memorial videos, and the desaparecidos in Argentina. Through these cases, the contributors argue for a re-inte.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 249 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781782382812
178238281X
9781306545938
1306545935

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