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The Mediatisation of Memory

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There is little doubt that the landscape of memory has transformed in modern times. How, what and why individuals and societies remember and forget is being shaped by technological, political, social and cultural shifts that interpenetrate memory and memories, their makers, deniers and their (identified mistakingly or otherwise as) ‘repositories’. For instance, public and popular culture and the politics of conflict and security are infused with memory discourses and are conjoined through the contemporary’s obsession with commemoration and that which Erika Doss (2008) calls ‘memorial mania’.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Gloucestershire, UK

    Joanne Garde-Hansen (senior lecturer of media, communication and culture) (senior lecturer of media, communication and culture)

  2. University of Warwick, UK

    Andrew Hoskins (Associate Professor of Sociology, Director) (Associate Professor of Sociology, Director)

  3. Warwick Centre for Memory Studies, UK

    Andrew Hoskins (Associate Professor of Sociology, Director) (Associate Professor of Sociology, Director)

  4. London South Bank University, UK

    Anna Reading (Reader in Cultural Studies) (Reader in Cultural Studies)

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Hoskins, A. (2009). The Mediatisation of Memory. In: Garde-Hansen, J., Hoskins, A., Reading, A. (eds) Save As … Digital Memories. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230239418_2

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