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Holocaust memory in a globalizing world
Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag (2017), 278 pp.
"Remembering the Holocaust is a central part of historical awareness and political culture in reunified Germany, Israel, and the United States. But can the same be said for other parts of the world? How have societies that were not affected by occupation and extermination measures under the Nazi reg
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"The paper presents: A discussion of the methods used in memory studies, explaining how attention to questions of methodology has been limited in memory studies because much research has been more concerned with theoretical issues. The paper reflects on the methods from oral history, as well as othe
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Video as Evidence: Field Guide
Key Guides
Witness (2016), 200 pp.
"The goal of the Field Guide is to provide methods for filmers to use so that their videos can be as valuable as possible in exposing abuse and bringing about justice. This resource will help ensure that more cameras in more hands can lead to more exposure and greater justice. Activists producing fo
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Citizen Media Research and Verification: An Analytical Framework for Human Rights Practitioners
Cambridge: University of Cambridge (2016), 35 pp.
"This paper examines the role of open source research in human rights fact-finding and seeks to address a gap in the current literature, which lacks a human rights perspective, is dominated by journalistic approaches, or focuses on specific tools. It focuses on citizen media, the visual subset of op
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Video as Evidence: Mini Guides
Witness (2016), 32 pp.
"We assume you know how to do human rights research but wish to expand on your knowledge of how to use digital data and online media for documentation purposes. This is a broad introduction that will set you on the right path to asking your own questions and seeking your own solutions. We aim to ins
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Media and Transitional Justice: A Dream of Symbiosis in a Troubled Relationship
New York: International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) (2016), 18 pp.
"Arriving at a collective memory of the past is one of the greatest challenges facing a post-conflict society because it implies reaching a degree of consensus in a polarized context. While truth commissions attempt to present an objective account of the events of a society’s repressive or violent
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Ctrl + Z: The Right to be Forgotten
New York; London: New York University Press (2016), xiii, 269 pp.
"The central thesis of Crtl+Z is that a digital right to be forgotten is an innovative idea with a lot of possibilities and potential. The idea simply needs to be opened up, reframed, and restructured. The extreme options currently on the table limit the many ways to think about digital redemption a
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"This study is focused on the modalities of transmission of knowledge related to historical events. It focuses on a generation of young Czechs in the age of 12 – 25 years. The data were gathered during 11 focus groups that took place with students on each of the three levels of Czech formal educat
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Memory in a Mediated World: Remembrance and Reconstruction
Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 307 pp.
"Considering both retrospective memories and the prospective employment of memories, Memory in a Mediated World examines troubled times that demand resolution, recovery and restoration. Its contributions provide empirically grounded analyses of how media are employed by individuals and social groups
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Communication, Generation and Cultural Memory: Insights from Fieldwork in Vietnam
In: Politics, Civil Society and Participation: Media and Communications in a Transforming Environment
Bremen: edition lumière (2016), pp. 213-226
"The chapter examines the complex relations of communication processes, generations and cultural memory in the socio-cultural setting of North Vietnam. It critically reviews present scholarly work in the flourishing, but scattered, field of memory research in communication and media studies, and dis
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YouTube and Evidencing Warcrimes: The Role of Digital Video for Transitional Justice in Syria
Tidskriftet POLITIK, volume 19, issue 4 (2016), pp. 30-52
"The enormous collection of user-generated content (UGC) in the form of YouTube videos from the Syrian war provides an unprecedented and diverse collection of shared digital memories of conflict and violence. The central question of this article asks what the value is of UGC on YouTube for legal evi
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Deutscher Kolonialismus: Fragmente seiner Geschichte und Gegenwart
Berlin; Darmstadt: Deutsches Historisches Museum; Theiss Verlag (2016), 333 pp.
"In der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jhs. baute Deutschland ein weites Kolonialreich auf. Dass dieser Teil der deutschen Geschichte heute oft vergessen ist, hängt mit dem frühen Verlust der Kolonien nach der Niederlage im Westen Weltkrieg zusammen. Kolonialgeschichte aber ist ein zentraler Teil einer g
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Survival Media: The Politics and Poetics of Mobility and the War in Sri Lanka
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xvi, 133 pp.
"Through the narratives and movements of survivors of the war in Lanka these interconnected essays develop the concept of 'survival media' as embodied and expressive forms of mobility across borders." (Publisher description)
Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies
London; New York: Routledge (2016), xxii, 546 pp.
"The Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies offers students and researchers original contributions that comprise the debates, intersections, and future courses of the field. It is divided in six themed sections: Theories and Perspectives; Cultural artefacts, Symbols and Social practices;
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Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form
Cambridge, Mass.; London: Belknap Press; Harvard University Press (2016), 359 pp.
"In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima's Ground Zero, comics display a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Investigating how hand-drawn comics has come of age as a serious medium for engaging history, Disaster Drawn explores the ways graphic narratives by d
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Micro-Blogging Memories: Weibo and Collective Remembering in Contemporary China
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xiii, 242 pp.
"This book offers an in-depth account of social media, journalism and collective memory through a five-year analysis of Weibo, a leading Chinese micro-blogging platform, and prism of transitional China in a globalizing world. How does society remember public events in the rapidly changing age of soc
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