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Media Witnessing: Exploring the Audience of Distant Suffering
Media, Culture & Society, volume 37, issue 2 (2015), pp. 215-231
"This article aims at demonstrating the relevance of the concept of 'media witnessing' as an analytical lens for the study of audience engagement with media reports of distant suffering. Drawing upon existing theoretical work on the concept, the article approaches media witnessing as a distinct moda
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Doing Oral History
Key Guides
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
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Remediating Transcultural Memory: Documentary Filmmaking as Archival Intervention
Berlin; Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter (2015), 252 pp.
"Despite the growing field of media memory studies, the impact from film and media studies has been scarce within memory studies. This unique study offers new theorizations of three crucial concepts for media memory studies: remediation, transculturality and the archive. This book takes a closer loo
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Memory on Trial: Media, Citizenship and Social Justice
Wien; Zürich: Lit (2015), ii, 186 pp.
"This book approaches the memory sharing of groups, communities and societies as inevitable struggles over the interpretation of, and authority over, particular stories. Coming to terms with the past in memory work, alone or with others, is always unsteady ground and the activation of memory will al
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Looking at the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes, Cambodia, on Flickr and YouTube
Media, Culture & Society, volume 36, issue 6 (2014), pp. 790-809
"'During the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-9) the Tuol Svay Prey high school in Phnom Penh was used under the codename S21 as a torture-and-execution centre. In 1979, the government of the newly established People's Republic of Kampuchea had it refurbished as memorial. Today, people from all over the wor
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NS-Propaganda im 21. Jahrhundert: Zwischen Verbot und öffentlicher Auseinandersetzung
Köln; Weimar; Wien: Böhlau (2014), 238 pp.
"Der Umgang mit den Relikten nationalsozialistischer Propaganda ist insbesondere in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland heftig umstritten; dies zeigen gerade die Diskussionen um eine wissenschaftliche Edition von Hitlers 'Mein Kampf'. Die Aufsätze des Bandes beschäftigen sich mit verschiedenen Propagan
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Médias en jeu, enjeux de mémoires
Liège: Université de Liège (2014), 185 pp.
Journalism and Dealing with the Past: A Manual for Journalists in Kosovo
Key Guides
Prishtina (KO): Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst (forumZFD) (2014), 30 pp.
"This manual is the result of Frequencies of the Past, a conflict sensitive journalism project by forumZFD. From 2011 to 2013, journalists from different media, ethnic backgrounds and from various regions of Kosovo have joined the project to explore the opportunities to cover sensitive issues relate
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Transnational Memory: Circulation, Articulation, Scales
Berlin; Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter (2014), viii, 376 pp.
"How do memories circulate transnationally and to what effect? How to understand the enduring role of national memories and their simultaneous reconfiguration under globalization? Challenging the methodological nationalism that has until recently dominated the study of memory and heritage, this book
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Nationale Identität als Medieninhalt: Theoretische Konzeption und empirische Messung am Beispiel Bulgariens
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2014), 341 pp.
"Die Studie behandelt nationale Identität als eine mediale Konstruktion und verfolgt dabei drei Ziele. Es wird ein Identitätsbegriff gesucht, der die Mikro- und Makroebene der Identitätsbildung sinnvoll miteinander verbindet. Darauf aufbauend wird eine Methode entwickelt, um nationale Identität
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Silence, Screen, and Spectacle: Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2014), viii, 249 pp.
"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 mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese A
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Journalism and Memory
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
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Silence or Outrage: How South East Europe’s Media Deal with the Past
KAS International Reports, issue 4 (2013), pp. 60-74
"Coming to terms with a country’s political past is closely linked to the mass media, as they are the key to changing public opinion. It is only with their support that a general acceptance of democratic structures, not to mention a new perception of history, can be achieved. In South East Europe,
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Memory, Conflict and New Media: Web Wars in Post-Socialist States
London; New York: Routledge (2013), xv, 265 pp.
Kein Platz an der Sonne: Erinnerungsorte der deutschen Kolonialgeschichte
Frankfurt am Main; New York: Campus Verlag (2013), 524 pp.
"Namibia gehört heute zu den beliebtesten Fernreisezielen der Deutschen - vielleicht auch deshalb, weil es einst als "Deutsch-Südwestafrika" Kolonie war. Die Erfahrung von Tourismus und Globalisierung rückte in den vergangenen Jahren den europäischen Kolonialismus, der auch die deutsche Geschich
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Ibero-American Television Fiction Observatory Obitel 2013: Social Memory and Television Fiction in Ibero-American Countries
Porto Alegre: Sulina; Globo Comunicação e Participações (2013), 523 pp.
"The first part, “Fiction in the Ibero-American Space”, presents a comparative synthesis of fiction in the Obitel countries. This comparison is made from a quantitative and qualitative perspective that allows to observe the development of fiction in each country, highlighting their main producti
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Nation as Neighborhood: How Bab Al-Hara Dramatized Syrian Identity
Media, Culture & Society, volume 35, issue 5 (2013), pp. 586-601
"This article discusses a popular Syrian television drama series, Bab al-Hara (The Neighborhood Gate), which ran for five seasons (2006-10). It is part of a genre of television series called the "Damascene milieu," which nostalgically dramatizes life in imagined Damascene neighborhoods in the late 1
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Research Methods for Memory Studies
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2013), vi, 256 pp.
"This guide provides students and researchers with a clear set of outlines and discussions of particular methods of research in memory studies. It offers not only expert appraisals of a range of techniques, approaches and perspectives in memory studies, but also focuses on key questions of methodolo
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Wem gehört die Geschichte? Erinnerungskultur in Literatur und Film
Münster: Aschendorff (2013), 208 pp.
"Nirgends ist die Vergangenheit des 20. Jahrhunderts so präsent wie in Romanen und Filmen. Zahlreiche Werke der Literatur und des Films erinnern diese Zeitgeschichte, indem sie darüber Geschichten erzählen. Auf diese Weise wird eine Erinnerungskultur gestiftet, die identitätsbildend und zugleich
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