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SAVE AS...:DIGITAL MEMORIES

Edited Collection

Edited by Anna Reading (London South Bank University), Joanne  
Garde-Hansen (University of Gloucestershire and Andrew Hoskins  
(Swansea University)

This co-edited book aims to address how digital media are changing the  
languages, forms and practices of memory. The book explores how  
digital media technologies such as the World Wide Web, mobile video  
phone, personal computer, digital archives and video games may be  
rearticulating discourses of memory, memory prosthetics and the  
practices associated with commemorating, recalling and memorialising  
the past. Articles in the book will include original,  trans-cultural  
and international research and may critically synthesize and seek to  
extend theoretical material from the disciplines of anthropology,  
cultural
studies, geography, history, holocaust studies, psychology,  
philosophy, sociology, media studies, museum studies, and  
psychoanalysis. The book seeks to be an accessible but scholarly  
critique aimed at level 2 & 3 undergraduates and MA level postgraduate  
students on a growing number of courses/modules in memory studies from  
within a variety of disciplines.

We require abstracts for chapters of 200 words plus a biography for  
one of the following sections. We strongly encourage submissions from  
non-UK scholars or on non-UK themes. DEADLINE AUGUST 31st 2006 to Anna  
Reading, readinam at lsbu.ac.uk


Part One: Digital Memory Discourses (section editor Andrew Hoskins)

This section traces the growing public, academic, and mediated  
discursive contestations of a past that seems increasingly  
interdependent upon digital media, for its survival in the present.  
Contributions will map the shifting modes and media of documentation  
and later representation of the past, against discourses on that past.  
Abstract proposals for this section can include (but are not  
restricted to) the following topics/themes:

Digital media as memory 'schema'
Digital media ecologies
Personal vs. public memory discourses
Virtual spaces, biographies,
Institutional memory
News narratives
Journalistic testimonies
Visual media 'templates'
Photojournalism



Part Two: Digital Memory Forms (section editor Anna Reading)

This section addresses how digital, mobile and interactive media  
environments are providing new media forms and prosthetics for  
personal and public memories in different cultural contexts. The  
contributions will address the extent to which the impact of digital  
media on forms of memory is important to a reworking of the  
theoretical understandings of time and space in relation to mediated  
commemorating, remembering, witnessing and forgetting in  
post-industrial 21st century societies. Abstract proposals for this  
section could include new research on the past in relation to digital  
media forms and environments such as history in video games, the  
digital mobile family album; sound and music
sampling; digital diaries and blogs.



Part Three: Digital Memory Practices (section editor Joanne Garde-Hansen)

History from below is now mediated through digital storytelling,  
weblogs, personal journalism, online reunion sites, personal digital  
collections, digital memory mapping, as well as peer to peer networks.  
A number of theoretical implications now arise as personal memories  
intersect with 'memory institutions'; concerning editing,  
organization, interpretation, visibility, accessibility,  
archivability, permanency, corruptibility, obsolescence, and future  
use. This section addresses such implications for our understanding of  
mediated memory, history and forgetting.

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