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Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities
Open Book Publishers (2013), xxiii, 163 pp.
"Thanks to ever-greater digital connectivity, interest in oral traditions has grown beyond that of researcher and research subject to include a widening pool of global users. When new publics consume, manipulate and connect with field recordings and digital cultural archives, their involvement raise
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"Considerable attention has been focused on the opportunities presented by new information and communication technologies for development (“ICT4D”) and for government (“ICT4GOV”). The purpose of this report is to analyze their impact on human rights (“ICT4HR”). As Philip Alston, the form
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Media and Transitional Justice: Toward a Systematic Approach
International Journal of Communication, volume 6 (2012), pp. 1077-1099
"This article addresses a major gap in the transitional justice literature by exploring the role of the media in transitional justice processes. We offer a framework for analyzing the information environment in which media intervention and transitional justice occurs. We suggest an approach that can
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Public Memory, Public Media, and the Politics of Justice
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
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Balkan Memories: Media Constructions of National and Transnational History
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2012), 270 pp.
Dialogue Through Film: A Handbook
London: Conciliation Resources (2012), 58 pp.
"Dialogue Through Film is a unique initiative bringing together young Armenians from Nagorny Karabakh and Azerbaijanis to make short films about the conflict that divides them. Over 30 young film-makers have taken part, and thousands of Armenians and Azeris have watched their films. This handbook of
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Rich Digital Media as a Tool in Post-Conflict Truth and Reconciliation
Media, War & Conflict, volume 4, issue 3 (2012), pp. 231-249
"Modern rich digital media (such as interactive systems with audio and video as well as text) have not been robustly deployed as a tool in the processes of peace-building, healing and reconciliation in nations emerging from civil conflict. This article studies the use of rich digital media in Liberi
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Memory and Political Change
Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xviii, 223 pp.
"Examining the role of memory in the transition from totalitarian to democratic systems, this book makes an important contribution to memory studies. It explores memory as a medium of and impediment to change, looking at memory's biological, cultural, narrative and socio-psychological dimensions." (
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The Collective Memory Reader
Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press (2011), xviii, 497 pp.
"The Collective Memory Reader presents, organizes, and evaluates past work and contemporary contributions on collective memory. Combining seminal texts, hard-to-find classics, previously untranslated references, and contemporary landmarks, it will serve as a key reference in the field. In addition t
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German Colonialism and National Identity
New York; London: Routledge (2011), x, 340 pp.
"The German empire that emerges from the volume edited by Michael Perraudin and Jürgen Zimmerer is one very much embedded in a broader European colonial discourse. Just like any other empire, Germany believed itself to be a "better" empire, more benevolent, more efficient, more civilized. Yet we le
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Bilder, die Geschichte schrieben: 1900 bis heute
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2011), 296 pp.
Oral History
New York: Oxford University Press (2011), viii, 186 pp.
"This title is part of the 'Understanding Qualitative Research' series, which is designed to provide researchers with authoritative guides to understanding, presenting, and critiquing analyses and associated inferences. There are three subareas in this series: Quantitative Research, Measurement, and
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Media and Memory
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2011), vii, 174 pp.
"How do we rely on media for remembering? In exploring the complex ways that media converge to support our desire to capture, store and retrieve memories, this textbook offers analyses of representations of memorable events, media tools for remembering and forgetting, media technologies for archivin
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Memory in Culture
Houndmills; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), ix, 209 pp.
"This book questions the sociocultural dimensions of remembering. It offers an overview of the history and theory of memory studies through the lens of sociology, political science, anthropology, psychology, literature, art and media studies; documenting current international and interdisciplinary m
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On Media Memory: Collective Memory in a New Media Age
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
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Covering Trauma: A Training Guide
Search for Common Ground, Radio for Peacebuilding Africa (2011), 20 pp.
"All stories about an ordinary person who becomes the victim of abuse require extra sensitivity, because survivors of abuse – whether the abuse is physical, emotional or political – are usually survivors of a traumatic event. There are many kinds of traumatic events. A terrible car crash, an ear
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Trauma Journalism: On Deadline in Harm's Way
New York; London: Continuum (2011), ix, 229 pp.
"The role of journalists in covering trauma and tragedy isn’t new. Witnessing acts of violence, destruction and terror has long been the professional responsibility of countless print and broadcast reporters and photographers. But what is new is a growing awareness of the emotional consequences of
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Memory in a Global Age: Discourses, Practices and Trajectories
Basingstoke, Hampshire et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2010), xiii, 252 pp.
"A significant contribution to memory studies and part of an emergent strand of work on global memory. This book offers important insights on topics relating to memory, globalization, international politics, international relations, Holocaust studies and media and communication studies." (Publisher
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