Hello everyone, I thought this new publication might be of interest to some on this list. Best, Christian **** Andrea Hajek, Christine Lohmeier, Christian Pentzold (eds): Memory in a Mediated World. Remembrance and Reconstruction (2016, Palgrave Macmillan) In times when public and private spheres are mediated more than ever, this volume looks at the way personal and collective memories are employed to revise and reconstruct old and new forms of individual and social life. Considering both retrospective memories and the prospective employment of memories, Memory in a Mediated World examines troubled times that demand resolution, recovery and restoration. The chapters assembled in this volume provide empirically grounded analyses of how media are employed by individuals and social groups to connect the past, the present and the future. The volume argues that experiences of private or public crisis often allow for a projective use of memories, be they individual or collective. Hence, contrary to the idea that such states of exception eliminate memories, the volume examines the ways in which memories in and of traumatic, conflictual or incisive events and experiences are addressed through a productive employment of past experiences, ideas, relationships or strategies. "Nowhere does social memory matter as much as in troubled times. This book brings together a diverse group of scholars who consider the roles played by collective memory in affecting the unsettled circumstances that follow upon natural disaster, war, uprising and other kinds of crisis. Memory, for these authors, holds enormous productive potential, a potential unpacked here in great detail. A highly useful intervention on an aspect of memory studies that has not been sufficiently examined to date." - Barbie Zelizer, Annenberg School for Communication, USA "This fascinating volume cuts the often inseparable knot that associates collective trauma, shared recollections, social crises and disintegration. The fresh perspective here suggested aims to define the mediation of memory – especially in the digital age – as a fertile ground for opportunities to voice, negotiate and reshape personal and social identities and to face present and future challenges. The comprehensive empirically-based cases explore the promise, which lies in contents and processes of mediation, to serve as a bridge over troubled water." - Motti Neiger, Netanya Academic College, Israel "Memory in a Mediated World" makes a positive and new contribution to the field of Memory Studies, offering readers original and compelling insights into the ways in which digital media especially shapes cultures of remembrance in troubled times. By bringing together work from Memory Studies' emergent strand on cultural memories of activism, alongside media memories of conflict and catastrophe, it pushes the 21st century Mnemologist and others studying memory to rethink the methods and roots of analyzing media memory." - Anna Reading, King's College London, UK For further information, see: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/Memory-in-a-Mediated-World/?K=9781137470... **** -- Dr. Christian Pentzold Lecturer Technische Universität Chemnitz, Institute for Media Research Associate Researcher Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society, Berlin Visiting Research Fellow 2015 Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King's College London Fon: +49-(0)371-531-38798 Fax: +49-(0)371-531-27429 christian.pentzold [at] hiig.de www.christianpentzold.de