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Story Work for a Just Future: Exploring the Plurality of Knowledge and Method within the Digital Storytelling Community

Antonia Liguori, Philippa Rappoport, Daniela Gachago (eds.)

Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press (2025), xiii, 227 pp.

"[...] new digital formats require people to craft their stories in new ways while capturing the emotion, nuance, and themes of what they remember and what they believe to be significant. They must learn through reflection, questioning, consideration, trial, revision, and feedback—and chapters in ... the book highlight efforts like workshopping at Berkeley’s StoryCenter, the Smithsonian’s Learning Lab, and elsewhere to give people a facility with digital technology to enable them to tell their stories. This is quite a transformation when one considers that for most of recent history the ability to disseminate stories was in the hands of those who controlled the means of story production—publishers, radio stations, and music, television, and movie companies. Now, with widespread digital access, anyone can, at least theoretically, become their own publisher, their own media company, their own distribution center. The locus of creativity and production does not have to be a Hollywood lot or a music studio—it can be, as illustrated herein, a community center, kitchen table, shelter, clinic, library, or school. The democratization of the production process means access to and participation in a much larger civic space. The purpose of Digital Storytelling exemplified in this collection of case studies and examples is not propagandistic or about spreading misinformation and distrust that nefariously aim to destabilize and even undermine societies. Nor is it about somehow imitating human storytelling by using artificial intelligence to entertain and intrigue audiences. Rather it is about encouraging people to tell their story and thus participate in the civic life of their community, group, nation, and the world. It is about their active, vital role in contributing to a larger good that they may enhance, enlarge, or elucidate by fashioning their experiences and lessons into a receivable format. As is apparent throughout the volume’s project descriptions and free-flowing conversations, Digital Storytelling is young enough that it retains an emergent quality characteristic of a growing form of cultural creativity and expression. Given that digital media will be with us for a long time, one would expect Digital Storytelling to branch out in an increasing diversity of ways, forms, and contexts. And as it grows and diversifies, one would expect its challenges—matters of storyteller privacy and discretion, thresholds of individual and community participation in securing resources and facilities, the underpreparation of participants and the overfacilitation of guides and mentors, limits of copyright and the fair use of digital components, the ethics of dissemination and reactions to reception—to also be addressed in a variety of ways." (Foreword, pages vii-viii) more

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Televisión con memoria: Entrevistas a creadores de ficción histórica en Chile y Colombia

Mónika Contreras Saiz (ed.)

Berlin; Bogotá: Laboratorio de Investigación de la Memoria y Métodos Digitales (GUMELAB); Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); FES Comunicación (2025), 395 pp.

"La televisión latinoamericana no solo entretiene, también recuerda. En Chile y Colombia, series y telenovelas han hecho de la pantalla un espacio donde se discute la historia reciente, la dictadura, el conflicto armado, el narcotráfico, la corrupción. En Televisión con memoria, la historiadora ... more

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War(s) in Europe. Shared experience, collective memory? A toolbox with methods tested in Germany, France, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ida Avdibegovic, Nathalie Chevalier, Anne Favre et al.

Berlin: Franco-German Youth Office (FGYO); Stiftung Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft (EVZ Foundation) (2024), 56 pp.

"Whether as a central theme or a reflection on current events, the issue of war is very important in international youth exchanges. This publication aims to provide guidance on how to talk about war in such contexts. Key questions that have been examined include the occurrence of past and current wa ... more

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Archival Silences

Michael S. Moss, David Thomas

London; New York: Routledge (2021), xiv, 257 pp.

"Archival Silences demonstrates emphatically that archival absences exist all over the globe. The book questions whether benign ‘silence’ is an appropriate label for the variety of destructions, concealment and absences that can be identified within archival collections. Including contributions ... more

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Transiciones, memorias e identidades en Europa y América Latina

Juan Ignacio Piovani, Clara Ruvituso, Nikolaus Werz (eds.)

Madrid; Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana; Vervuert (2016), 291 pp.

"El presente volumen recoge diferentes enfoques teóricos y metodológicos sobre las memorias, transiciones políticas e identidades en Alemania, Argentina y España, buscando establecer comparaciones y puntos de convergencia en sociedades signadas durante el siglo XX por regímenes políticos autor ... more

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Disputed Memory: Emotions and Memory Politics in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe

Tea Sindbæk Andersen, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa (eds.)

Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter (2016), vi, 383 pp.

"The world wars, genocides and extremist ideologies of the 20th century are remembered very differently across Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, resulting sometimes in fierce memory disputes. This book investigates the complexity and contention of the layers of memory of the troubled 20th ce ... more

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Doing Oral History
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Donald A. Ritchie

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3rd ed. (2015), xvi, 347 pp.

"Doing Oral History is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional oral historians, public historians, archivists, and genealogists as a core text in college courses and throughout the public history community. The recent development of digital audio and video recording te ... more

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Right to memory

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

"How reliable are the mass media’s stories and images of yesterday let alone of the more remote past? Only by rigorously cross-checking different sources of public or cultural memory might one reach a point that is reasonably balanced and accurate – an exercise in triangulating memory’s ever ... shifting terrain. This, of course, is the essence of positive revisionist history (rather than its negative counterpart, in which one must beware the hidden agendas of politics, ideology, class, gender, and religion.) The notion of a right to memory is, therefore, fraught with difficulty. Whose memories are being sought? How are they to be (re)constructed? How can their veracity, integrity, and credibility be guaranteed? And, in today’s information-sharing societies, what are the relationships between the right to memory, the right to information, and the right to communication? In Cambodia, a cultural unwillingness not to speak ill of the past is confronted by the extreme discomfort of survivors of the Pol Pot regime that killed 1.7 million (one sixth of the population). While the Cambodian government pursues reconciliation based on the political expediency of amnesty, the people’s right to communicate their stories stands precariously on their inability to recover the truth of what happened. In Uruguay a freedom of information law passed in 2008 provides the legal framework for public access to a vast quantity of secret state information pertaining to the country’s military dictatorships. The law clearly stipulates that there can be no restrictions when it comes to investigating violations of human rights. In South Africa, after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission had completed its work, the essential question was how to generate the will to form restorative relationships that could tackle resentment, bring economic restitution, and forge new political structures that were just and equitable. Restorative relationships require coming to terms with memories that others might wish to forget. In this respect, a litmus test for a right to memory is how it might be used to transcend traumatic events in ways that overcome hatred, fear, guilt, and revenge. How might a right to memory contribute to a more peaceful and sustainable future? And a litmus test for political, social and cultural responses to the questions at the heart of public memory is how critical and balanced they are when issues of power, privilege, and impunity haunt the present. As Paul Ricoeur has pointed out, ‘The duty of memory is the duty to do justice, through memories, to an other than the self.’" (Editorial, page 2) more

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Latin America's Contested Pasts in Telenovelas and TV Series: History as Fuel for Entertainment
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Mónika Contreras Saiz, Stefan Rinke (eds.)

Berlin: De Gruyter (2025), xxii, 381 pp.

"In Latin America, the production of telenovelas and TV series about the region's recent and traumatic past has grown considerably in the last 20 years, affecting societal perceptions of the past, historical consciousness, and political culture. While these TV products are usually perceived as trivi ... more

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Von Hashtags und Geschichte: Vergangenheitsbezogene Hate Speech und ihre Multimodalität auf TikTok

Andrea Lorenz

Publizistik, volume 70 (2025), pp. 261-287

"Die audiovisuelle Plattform TikTok bildet mittlerweile einen relevanten Aushandlungsort für soziale Gruppen aller Art. User*innen bietet sich die Möglichkeit, eigene Räume für Vernetzung zu schaffen und Identitätsmanagement zu betreiben. Aufgrund der Plattformaffordanzen – vor allem Multimod ... more

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Remembering Mass Atrocities: Perspectives on Memory Struggles and Cultural Representations in Africa

Mphathisi Ndlovu, Lungile Augustine Tshuma, Shepherd Mpofu (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xvii, 303 pp.

"This book explores how popular cultural artifacts, literary texts, commemorative practices and other forms of remembrances are used to convey, transmit and contest memories of mass atrocities in the Global South. Some of these historical atrocities took place during the Cold war. As such, this book ... more

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History’s Future: EVZ Foundation Shapes Digital Culture of Remembrance

Eva Hasel, Anne Lammers, Leonore Martin

Berlin: Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ) (2024), 20 pp.

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How Pharaohs Became Media Stars: Ancient Egypt and Popular Culture

Abraham Ignacio Fernández Pichel (ed.)

Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing (2024), vi, 250 pp.

"The appearance of new media and its enormous diffusion in the last decades of the 20th century and up to the present has greatly increased and diversified the reception of Egyptian themes and motifs and Egyptian influence in various cultural spheres. So-called popular or pop culture (cinema, genre ... more

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Geteilte Geschichte_n – Plurale Solidaritäten: Diskussionen zur Verbindung von verflechtungsgeschichtlichen Ansätzen und community-übergreifenden Unterstützungsstrukturen

Iris Rajanayagam (ed.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2024), 163 pp.

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La historia oral en Argentina y Latinoamérica

Maylén Bolchinsky Pinsón, Facundo De Feudis Taboada, Francisco Santillán (comp.)

Mar del Plata: Facundo Felipe De Feudis Taboada; Teseopress (2024), 653 pp.

"Este libro reúne un conjunto de investigaciones que desde diferentes perspectivas, problemáticas y objetos de estudio hacen uso de la oralidad para la escritura de la historia. Es fruto del trabajo realizado en el XV Encuentro Nacional y IX Congreso Internacional de Historia Oral. Pasado, present ... more

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Familiar Faces: Photography, Memory, and Argentina's Disappeared

Piotr Cieplak (ed.)

Goldsmiths Press (2024), 240 pp.

"During the country's most recent civic-military dictatorship (1976–1983), 30,000 people were disappeared or killed by the state. Over the decades, vernacular and professional photographs have been central to the Argentine struggle for justice. They were used not only to protest the disappearances ... more

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Memoria como recurso en la transformación de conflictos: El papel de medios y periodistas en la construcción de paz. Congreso Internacional, Septiembre 19 al 21 de 2023, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá - Colombia

Rousbeh Legatis, Claudia Maya

Bogotá: Instituto Colombo-Alemán para la Paz (CAPAZ) (2024), 69 pp.

"Más allá de ser meramente intermediarios, medios de comunicación, periodistas, comunicadoras y comunicadores sociales construyen narrativas de la memoria y del pasado a través de su labor y prác ticas cotidianas. A través de su trabajo dan contexto a los acontecimientos en perspectiva histór ... more

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Gewalt und Gedächtnis: Globale Erinnerung im 21. Jahrhundert

Mirjam Zadoff

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2024), 236 pp.

"Wie prägen Erfahrungen von Gewalt gesellschaftliche Diskurse? Mirjam Zadoff nähert sich der Frage, welchen Stellenwert kollektive Gewalterfahrungen im Gedächtnis verschiedener Gesellschaften einnehmen und wie diese Erfahrungen bewältigt werden. Sie gibt Einblicke in europäische und außereurop ... more

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Latin American History Goes to the Movies: Understanding Latin America's Past through Film
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Stewart Brewer

London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2024), xiii, 264 pp.

"This new edition of Latin American History Goes to the Movies uses a variety of feature films as a method of studying key historical themes in Latin America, from pre-Columbian cultures to contemporary debates. The book provides historical context as a way of interpreting Latin American filmography ... more

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Versöhnungstheater

Max Czollek

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2023), 173 pp.

"Die im demokratischen Deutschland etablierte Erinnerungskultur gilt vielen Bürgerinnen und Bürgern als ein Erfolgsmodell, auf das sie mit einem gewissen Stolz blicken können. In der Tat war es ein langer Weg von der weitgehenden Verdrängung der nationalsozialistischen Verbrechen bis zu ihrer ö ... more

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Doing Oral History
Key Guidance

Latin America's Contested Pasts in Telenovelas and TV Series: History as Fuel for Entertainment
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Latin American History Goes to the Movies: Understanding Latin America's Past through Film
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