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Noam Tirosh, Anna Reading (eds.)

New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2023), x, 168 pp.

"The field of memory studies has typically focused on everyday memory and commemoration practices through which we construct meaning and identities. The Right to Memory looks beyond these everyday practices, focusing instead on how memory relates to human rights and socio-legal constructs in order t ... more

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Sacred Texts and Digital Culture

Amanda Dillon, Bradford A. Anderson (eds.)

Postscripts, volume 12, issue 1 (2021), 146 pp.

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Democracy and Fake News

Serena Giusti, Elisa Piras (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2021), xiv, 232 pp.

"This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective. The authors analyse and interpret how the use of technology and social media as well as the emergence of new political narratives has been progressively ... more

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The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies

Frederick Luis Aldama (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2021), xxiv, 569 pp.

"A diverse range of international and interdisciplinary scholars take a closer look at how gender and sexuality have been essential in the evolution of comics, and how gender and sexuality in comics demand that we re-frame and re-view comics history. Essays cover a wide array of intersectional topic ... more

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Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation in the Arab World and Asia

Carola Richter, Anna Antonakis, Cilja Harders (eds.)

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2018), vi, 189 pp.

"In times of increasing mediatization and digitalization media play an important role in political and societal transformation processes. The authors of this volume take an actor-centered perspective to shed light on current cases in Arab and Asian countries. They inquire into the ways processes of ... more

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Digital Memory Studies: Media Pasts in Transition

Andrew Hoskins (ed.)

New York; London: Routledge (2018), xii, 313 pp.

"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 ... more

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Journalism and Memory

Barbie Zelizer, Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt (eds.)

Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), xv, 282 pp.

"Tracking the ways in which journalism and memory mutually support, undermine, repair and challenge each other, this fascinating collection brings together leading scholars in journalism and memory studies to investigate the complicated role that journalism plays in relation to the past." (Publisher ... more

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Memory, Conflict and New Media: Web Wars in Post-Socialist States

Ellen Rutten, Julie Fedor, Vera Zvereva (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2013), xv, 265 pp.

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Public Memory, Public Media, and the Politics of Justice

Philip Lee, Pradip Thomas (eds.)

Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xvii, 220 pp.

"This book aims to provide a context in which a clear link can be traced between the politics of memory and its manifold representations and misrepresentations in public media towards a viable politics of justice. The assumption is that public awareness and perceptions of injustice, whether they are ... more

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On Media Memory: Collective Memory in a New Media Age

Mordechai Neiger, Oren Meyers, Eyal Zandberg (eds.)

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), xvi, 300 pp.

"This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of Media Memory and brings Media and Mediation to the forefront of Collective Memory research. The essays explore a diversity of media technologies (television, radio, film and new media), genres (news, fiction, documentaries) and contexts (US, UK, Spai ... more

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Right to Memory

Media Development, volume 57, issue 2 (2010), pp. 3-59

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Popular Culture in a Globalised India

K. Moti Gokulsing, Wimal Dissanayake (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2009), xviii, 285 pp.

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Thumb Culture: The Meaning of Mobile Phones for Society

Peter Glotz, Stefan Bertschi, Chris Locke (eds.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2005), 296 pp.

"Mobile communication has an increasing impact on people's lives and society. Ubiquitous media influence the way users relate to their surroundings, and data services like text and pictures lead to a culture shaped by thumbs. Representing several years of research into the social and cultural effect ... more

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Communism, Capitalism and the Mass Media

Colin Sparks, Anna Reading

London: Sage (1998), xix, 214 pp.

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The Media After Communism

Colin Sparks (ed.)

Media, Culture & Society, volume 16, issue 2 (1994), pp. 179-312

"[...] We consider here a wide range of post-communisms. At one extremestands the former German Democratic Republic: There, the politicalcollapse of communism immediately preceded the economic and socialdestruction of the old way of life. As Maryellen Boyle shows, theaspirations of the people who ov ... erthrew communism were swept aside bythe juggernaut of reunification. This anschluss - to borrow Habermas’shistorically loaded term -was immediately followed by the imposition ofWest German ideas and structures. Within broadcasting, this foundexpression in the setting up of a new system integrated into the existing West German framework. These structural changes were accompanied bythe appointment of Western managers, often from the ruling ChristianDemocratic Party, and an extensive purge of the existing staff. EasternGermany has been rather brutally and very finally integrated into the worldmarket at the expense of the people who ran the Stalinist state.A t the other extreme stands the Chinese experience. There the processof integration, and the destruction of central planning, are proceeding asrapidly in television as in any other part of society. The political system,however, remains controlled by the very same people who have been inpower for years. As Yu Huang shows, the massive development oftelevision in China has been largely the result of the introduction of localautonomy and a shift towards commercial financing. This has led to strainsand tensions between the central party apparatus and the broadcasters.The aftermath of Tiananmen Square was to increase political control butnot to interrupt the growth of the market. One might say that, so far atleast, the process of integration into the world market has been to thebenefit of the people who ran the old system.Between these two extremes lie the majority of countries of the formerSoviet empire in Europe and its local offshoots elsewhere. In differentcountries there have been varying degrees of political change and the scaleand extent of the introduction of market mechanisms and privatization hasbeen extremely uneven. We publish two articles which reflect on East andCentral Europe and which attempt to theorize those experiences. ColinSparks and Anna Reading look at the main currents of social theory whichhave tried t o explain the nature of the end of communism and itsaftermath. They apply propositions derived from these to the study oftelevision in Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. KarolJakubowicz makes wider geographical generalizations, but concentrateshis attention mostly on Poland. Despite recognizing the continuingpolitical pressure on the media, he is finally optimistic as to the chances of‘depoliticizing’ television [...] (Editorial) more