Editors:
- Examines the interface between contemporary social movements, cultural memory, and digital media
- Highlights how activists use digital media to lay claim to, circulate, and curate cultural memories
- Utilises case studies from across the globe to exhibit how social movements use digital media to mobilize the past
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (PMMS)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Circulations
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Front Matter
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Curations
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
“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)
“Weaving together diverse disciplinary perspectives, this edited volume offers an insightful exploration of the relationship between activism and digital memory. It brings together scholars from memory studies, digital media research and social movement studies to investigate practices of digital curation, circulation and claiming of memories by social and political movements. The picture that emerges is nuanced and compelling. It is also firmly grounded in empirical case studies from all over the world, from the virtual Escrache in Argentina to American transgender communities to the Navalny campaign in Russia. This is an indispensable volume for scholars interested in digital memory and social movements.” (Dr Anastasia Kavada, Reader in Media and Politics, School of Media and Communication, University of Westminster, UK)
“While social movements are certainly innovative, they are also deeply rooted in traditions of contention that are embedded in the memories of past struggles. Mnemonic practices involve complex mechanisms that work offline, but also online. Covering a broad range of cases in various parts of the world and bridging studies on memory and digital media, this very interesting collection helps us understand the forms and meaning of protest.” (Donatella della Porta, Professor of Political Science, Scuola Normale Superiore Florence, Italy)
“This excellent collection offers cutting-edge insights within a unified perspective. It will become required reading for everyone interested in memory and activism in the digital age.” (Ann Rigney, Professor of Comparative Literature, Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Editors and Affiliations
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Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
Samuel Merrill
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Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
Emily Keightley
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Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
Priska Daphi
About the editors
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media
Book Subtitle: Mobilising Mediated Remembrance
Editors: Samuel Merrill, Emily Keightley, Priska Daphi
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32827-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32826-9Published: 21 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32829-0Published: 21 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32827-6Published: 20 February 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-6257
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6265
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 298
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Digital/New Media, Memory Studies