Guest editors:
Christian Pentzold (Chemnitz University of Technology /
Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society, Berlin)
Christine Lohmeier (University of Munich)
Media, Culture & Society editors:
Emily Keightley (Loughborough University)
Philip Schlesinger (University of Glasgow)
Media and memory are often closely intertwined. From the very
start of human culture, media have been employed to fix, share and store
expressions and impressions of individual and collective experiences. Taking
this continuing twin relation as its point of departure, this special issue
seeks to showcase empirical research that studies the interplay of contemporary
media, social change and acts and artifacts of memory.
The editors are seeking contributions that investigate
commemoration, remembrance and memory work as an essential thread in the social
and material patterns of modern culture.
We are especially interested in empirically grounded submissions
that address, but are not limited to, the following questions:
- What can we learn about the interplay of
individual and collective memory
and the affordances of a media ecology that is more and more
digitally networked and increasingly mobile and locative?
- How may we conceptualize and investigate
memory taking account of the dynamics of digitisation, networking and
mediatization?
- Which methods and approaches are most
appropriate for the study of memory work and digital and connective media?
- How are memories materially and
semiotically mediated?
- How does memory travel? How can we
conceptualise and study memory work in quotidian mobilities as well as in a
range of contexts such as transcultural/transnational western and non-western
movements, post-colonial contexts, diasporas and the general flows of peoples,
goods and ideas?
- What are the dynamics of
(counter-)hegemonic discourses of memory in current mediascapes?
- What can we learn about how mediated
memories are realised in respect of power, class, ethnicity, religion and
gender?
Please submit an 800 word abstract and a 100 word biographical
note to both guest editors, Christian Pentzold and Christine Lohmeier, as an
e-mail attachment (.rtf, .doc, .pdf) no later than 16 November, 2012. Authors
of accepted abstracts will be notified by the end of November 2012. Manuscripts
should be no more than 8,000 words, including notes and references, be in
conformity with Media, Culture & Society style guidelines and should be
submitted by 1 May, 2013. For specific manuscript submission guidelines, please
go to:http://mcs.sagepub.com/
Important dates
Deadline for abstracts
16 November 2012
Full paper submission
1 May 2013
Revised paper submission 31 August
2013
Issue publication
Summer 2014
If you have any queries, please contact the guest editors:
Christian Pentzold, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for
Internet & Society, Berlin / Chemnitz University of Technology, christian.pentzold@phil.tu-chemnitz.de
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