Publication announcement: For those interested in the intersection of social media and social memory, Media, Culture & Society has just published a special section with papers studying different field sites in Singapore, Cambodia and Australia as well among Cuban-Americans in Miami where digitally networked technologies were used in and for processes of social remembering. *Media, Culture & Society (September 2014 issue, no. 36(6)) special section: Digital media - social memory* Guest editors: Christian Pentzold and Christine Lohmeier Find the special section here: http://mcs.sagepub.com/content/36/6.toc Background: In times when all walks of live seem to be mediated, in the ubiquitous presence of communication devices and ever more ways to produce, store, remix and distribute messages, the special section assembles research and thinking on the relationship of social media and social memory and to ponder on key themes of current as well as future research. Memory and media are inseparable. Since the very beginnings of human culture, media have been employed to fix, share and store expressions and impressions of individual and collective experiences. Remembrance thus lives and sustains itself in mediated memorable objects and symbolic representations that become enmeshed and activated in memory work such as colloquial conversation, ritual ceremonies, retrospectives or reminiscences. Moreover, from wall paints and cuneiforms via manuscripts and prints to the rise of networked electronic infrastructures and digital media, socio-technical innovations reassemble the practices and materials of individual and collective commemorations. Taking this continuing twin relation, the special section captures empirical research that studies the interplay of current media and social changes and the acts and artefacts of memory. Given the swift appearance, broad diffusion and profound impact of novel connective and mobile services and applications, the special section considers how social media relate to the ways we ‘do’ memory. TOC: Media, Culture & Society (September 2014, issue 36, no. 6: pp. 745-809). Special section: Digital media - social memory. Guest editors: Christian Pentzold and Christine Lohmeier Emily Keightley and Philip Schlesinger Digital media – social memory: remembering in digitally networked times Media, Culture & Society September 2014 36: 745-747, doi:10.1177/0163443714532985 Anna Reading Seeing red: a political economy of digital memory Media, Culture & Society September 2014 36: 748-760, doi:10.1177/0163443714532980 Kai Khiun Liew, Natalie Pang, and Brenda Chan Industrial railroad to digital memory routes: remembering the last railway in Singapore Media, Culture & Society September 2014 36: 761-775, 2014 doi:10.1177/0163443714532984 Christine Lohmeier and Christian Pentzold Making mediated memory work: Cuban-Americans, Miami media and the doings of diaspora memories Media, Culture & Society September 2014 36: 776-789, 2014 doi:10.1177/0163443713518574 Stephanie Benzaquen Looking at the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes, Cambodia, on Flickr and YouTube Media, Culture & Society September 2014 36: 790-809, 2014 doi:10.1177/0163443714532983 -- Dr. Christian Pentzold Lecturer Technische Universität Chemnitz, Institute for Media Research Associate Researcher Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society, Berlin Fon: +49-(0)371-531-38798 Fax: +49-(0)371-531-27429 christian.pentzold [at] hiig.de www.christianpentzold.de