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

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, New York ; Oxford, England : 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)
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
COMPUTERS > History.
Collective memory
Information technology > Social aspects
Mass media and history
Memorialization
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction
  • Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information; Part I
  • Spectacular Memory: Memory and Appearance in the Age of Information; Chapter 1
  • Haunted by the Spectre of Communism: Spectacle and Silence in Hungary's House of Terror; Chapter 2
  • Making Visible: Reflexive Narratives at the Manzanar U.S. National Historic Site; Chapter 3
  • The Everyday as Spectacle: Archival Imagery and the Work of Reconciliation in Canada; Part II
  • Screening Absence: New Technology, Affect, and Memory
  • Chapter 4
  • Viral Affiliations: Facebook, Queer Kinship, and the Memory of the Disappeared in Contemporary ArgentinaChapter 5
  • Learning by Heart: Humming, Singing, Memorizing in Israeli Memorial Videos; Chapter 6
  • Arcade Mode: Remembering, Revisiting, and Replaying the American Video Arcade; Part III
  • Silence and Memory: Erasures, Storytelling, and Kitsch; Chapter 7
  • Remembering Forgetting: A Monument to Erasure at the University of North Carolina; Chapter 8
  • The Power of Conflicting Memories in European Transnational Social Movements
  • Chapter 9
  • Memories of Jews and the Holocaust in Post-Communist Eastern EuropeChapter 10
  • 1989 as Collective Memory ""Refolution"": East-Central Europe Confonts Memorial Silence; Conclusion
  • Comments on Silence, Screen, and Spectacle; Contributors; Index

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