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Author:   Samuel Merrill, III ,  Emily Keightley ,  Priska Daphi
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   2020 ed.
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783030328290

ISBN 10:   3030328295
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   21 February 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Digital Memory Work Practices of Social Movements.-2. Trans Memory as Transmedia Activism.- 3. Who is the Volk? PEGIDA and the Contested Memory of 1989 on Social Media.- 4. Connective memory work on Justice for Mike Brown.- 5. Following The Woman with the Handbag: Mnemonic Context Collapse and the Antifascist Activist Appropriation of an Iconic Historical Photograph.- 6. #ioricordo, beyond the Genoa G8: social practices of memory work and the digital remembrance of contentious pasts in Italy.- 7. In Between Old and New, Local and Transnational: Social Movements, Hybrid Media and the Challenges of Making Memories Move.- 8. Archiving the Repertoire, Performing the Archive: Virtual Iterations of Second-Generation Activism in Post-Dictatorship Argentina.- 9. How to Curate a 'Living Archive': The Restlessness of Activist Time and Labour.- 10. 'We Will Not Forget, We Will Not Forgive!': Alexei Navalny, Youth Protest and the Art of Curating Digital Activism and Memory in Russia.- 11. Afterword/Afterweb: The Antisocial Memory Assemblage.

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Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media provides an important foundation for future interdisciplinary research of memory and media in movement. It will be of great value to experienced and junior scholars. Despite its sometimes heavy use of jargon, it may even inform students and activists. (Yifat Gutman, Mobilization, December, 2020)

“Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media provides an important foundation for future interdisciplinary research of memory and media in movement. It will be of great value to experienced and junior scholars. Despite its sometimes heavy use of jargon, it may even inform students and activists.” (Yifat Gutman, Mobilization, December, 2020)

Author Information

Samuel Merrill is a Research Fellow at Umeå University’s Digital Social Research Centre in Sweden. His research interests concern social movements, cultural memory and digital media. He is author of Networked Remembrance: Excavating Buried Memories in the Railways Beneath London and Berlin (2017).  Emily Keightley is Professor of Media and Memory Studies at the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture at Loughborough University, UK, and editor of the journal Media, Culture & Society. Her research focuses on memory, time and its mediation in everyday life.  Priska Daphi is Professor of Conflict Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany, and co-editor of the journal Social Movement Studies. She is author of Becoming a Movement: Identity, Narrative and Memory in the European Global Justice Movement (2017).

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