On Media Memory: Collective Memory in a New Media Age

This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of Media Memory and brings Media and Mediation to the forefront of Collective Memory research. The essays explore a diversity of media technologies (television, radio, film and new media), genres (news, fiction, documentaries) and contexts (US, UK, Spain, Nigeria, Germany and the Middle East).

TAMAR ASHURI Lecturer at Ben-Gurion University’s Department of Communication Studies and in the School of Communications at Sapir College, Israel AVNER BEN-AMOS Professor of History of Education at the School of Education, Tel-Aviv University, Israel DAN BERKOWITZ Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa, USA S. ELIZABETH BIRD Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida, USA JÉRÔME BOURDON Professor in the Department of Communications, Tel Aviv University, Israel IRIT DEKEL Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for German Studies of the European Forum, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel JILL A. EDY Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Oklahoma, USA PAUL FROSH Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication and Journalism at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel ANDREW HOSKINS Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK TAMAR KATRIEL Professor in the Department of Communication and the Department of Leadership and Policy in Education at the University of Haifa, Israel CAROLYN KITCH Professor of Journalism in the School of Communications and Theatre at Temple University, USA NETA KLIGLER-VILENCHIK Ph.D. Candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, USA AMIT PINCHEVSKI Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel ANNA READING Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at London South Bank University, UK JOSÉ CARLOS RUEDA LAFFOND Senior Lecturer at the Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain VERED VINITZKY-SEROUSSI Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and a Faculty Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Sociology at Yale University, USA NIMROD SHAVIT Graduate student in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA NA’AMA SHEFFI Associate Professor at the School of Communication in Sapir College, Sderot, Israel KEREN TENENBOIM-WEINBLATT Doctoral candidate at The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, USA BARBIE ZELIZER Raymond Williams Chair of Communication at the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA.