Joanne Garde-Hansen

Media and memory

Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Mediating the Past Part One: Theoretical Background 1 Memory Studies and Media Studies 2 Personal, Collective, Mediated and New Memory Discourses 3 Using Media to Make Memories: Institutions, Forms and Practices 4 Digital Memories: The Democratization of Archives Part Two: Case Studies 5. Voicing the Past: BBC Radio 4 and The Aberfan Disaster of 1963 6. (Re)Media Events: Remixing War on YouTube 7. The Madonna Archive: Celebrity, Ageing and Fan Nostalgia 8. Towards a Concept of Connected Memory: The Photo Album Goes Mobile Bibliography Index

Developing a research culture in the undergraduate curriculum

A great deal of value is placed on student research within universities, exemplified by the prominent role of the dissertation or extended written work at the end of many programmes, and the more general benefits of embedding research-based learning into a curriculum in order to develop higher-order learning. This article reports on a collaborative problem-based learning (PBL) activity undertaken by staff and students to run an undergraduate conference for first year students on how to develop a research culture. The aim is to better understand how students undertake research and how a research culture might be inculcated much earlier in undergraduate programmes.

Memobilia: The Mobile Phone and the Emergence of Wearable Memories

In the science fiction novel Woman on the Edge of Time, first published in 1976, Marge Piercy envisaged a future society in which the characters would have ‘kenners’, mobile communication and personal memory prosthetics strapped to the wrist and connected to a world wide electronic network. In March 2006, Piercy’s kenner, in effect, became a reality when Nokia announced its 4G mobile phone designed to strap to the user’s wrist.

From Old Media Whore to New Media Troll

On the 18 January, 2009, an online pop music fan posted over fifty outtake images from Madonnas photographic shoot for her previously released Hard Candy album. These photos produced a backlash of abuse of the then fifty-year-old Madonna from music fans and can be situated in a wider online discursive sphere of brutal and offensive critique of Madonnas ageing body and femininity in social networking sites such as Facebook, for example. While longevity, experience and wisdom ensure that Madonna continues to be meaningful to nostalgic and new audiences alike, these attributes slide out of view as the focus remains upon her body, its femininity and its ability to ‘pass’ in a youth-centred popular music culture. In the wider context of a cultural, political and industry debate around the practice of releasing pre- and post-airbrushed images, the leaked photos are instrumental (albeit unintentionally) for interrogating the relationship between media and authentic ageing female bodies. This article offers a theoretical analysis of the online discursive (textual and visual) poaching and negotiation of Madonnas image, celebrity and marketing of the ageing female body.

Theorizing Emotion and Affect

Scholars attempting to cover the history of research on emotion often chart a course through work by Aristotle, Baruch Spinoza, Sigmund Freud, and William James. These names become anchoring points in a chronological overview of emotion as a concept. Of course, like all broad-brush attempts to survey such a vast and complicated area, they leave out several other important scholars, such as Adam Smith, David Hume, Silvan S. Tomkins, and Raymond Williams. This chapter is not intended as a history of the concept of emotion. Several books have been written already that successfully move through the theoretical development of the term. Robert C. Solomon’s (2003) What Is an Emotion? Classic and Contemporary Readings ([1984] 2003), for instance, provides an excellent historical overview alongside written work from Aristotle to Martha Nussbaum. The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle’s Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science (2006) by Daniel M. Gross is a radical reading of similar writers. Jennifer Harding and E. Deidre Pribram’s Emotions: A Cultural Studies Reader (2009) offers recent work within the fields of cultural and critical studies, and Jerome Kagan’s What Is Emotion?: History, Measures and Meanings (2007) charts a sophisticated course through the history of emotion in fields as diverse as anthropology, psychology, and neurobiology.

Sustainable flood memory: Remembering as resilience

This article proposes the concept of sustainable flood memory as a critical and agentic form of social and cultural remembering of learning to live with floods. Drawing upon research findings that use the 2007 floods in the South West of England as a case study, we explore and analyse the media representations of flooding, the role of community and communicative memory of past floods for fostering resilience, and map emotional and affective responses to floods. To approach flooding in this way is critical to understanding how communities engage in memory practices (remembering and strategically forgetting) in order to cope with environmental changes. Moreover, the article embraces a research design and strategy in which ‘memory studies’ is brought into a conversation not only with geography (mental maps), social sciences and flood risk management policy but also with stakeholders and communities who collect, archive and remember flood histories in their respective regions.

Fandom’s paratextual memory : remembering, reconstructing, and repatriating “lost” Doctor Who

ABSTRACT In this article, we aim to bring fan studies and memory studies into greater dialogue through the concept of “paratextual memory”. For media fans, paratextual memory facilitates a sense of “having been there” at key moments of T.V. broadcasting, sustaining fan authenticity and status. We focus on B.B.C. T.V.’s science fiction series Doctor Who (1963–) as a case study due to the fact that the programs “missing episodes” (wiped by the B.B.C.) have been reconstructed by fans through “remixes” of off-air sound recordings and “tele-snap” visual records. Unusually, then, fans’ paratextual memory and related forms of productivity have taken the place of archived television. We go on to address how fan-archivists and entrepreneurs have sought to recover and repatriate “lost” Doctor Who. Processes of fannish paratextual memory typically draw on heritage discourses to valorize “classic” Doctor Who, and fans’ paratextual memory has thus fed into the B.B.C.’s recommodification of “archive” T.V.

Towards a Memo-Techno-Ecology: Mediating Memories of Extreme Flooding in Resilient Communities

In Emotion Online: Theorizing Affect on the Internet (2013), Garde-Hansen and Gorton textually analyse the online debates around climate change media that entangle the threat of bad weather with fears over race relations, war and political dissent. Drawing upon Brian Massumi’s work, which combines extreme weather and war into a discursively connected ‘threat-form’ of ‘the suddenly irrupting, locally self-organizing, system- ically self-amplifying threat of large-scale disruption’ (2011, p. 20), the authors propose the concept of an emo-techno-ecology. This addresses the way these changing-environment fears exist ‘trans-medially’ as well as at ‘hyper-local’ levels. Thus, they argue that ‘we need to understand our mediated ecology along two wavelengths simultaneously: as local and global emotions’ or as ‘global emo-scapes’ in which citizens are affectively connected to their environment as ‘technologically enabled infotainment producers/consumers’ (2013, p. 128). More broadly, Brace and Geoghegan (2011), writing in the context of human geography, argue that climate change is encountered holistically, not just in how it is understood ‘top-down’ through the communication of scientific discourses but relationally at a local level: Climate change can be observed in relation to landscape but also felt, sensed, apprehended emotionally as part of the fabric of everyday life in which acceptance, denial, resignation and action co-exist as personal and social responses to the local manifestations of a global problem. (Brace & Geoghegan, 2011, p. 284)

The vague and complex character of collective memory: on The Collective Memory Reader

Fil: Belvedresi, Rosa Elena. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Centro Cientifico Tecnologico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educacion. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales; Argentina

Book review symposium: The Collective Memory Reader:

Fil: Belvedresi, Rosa Elena. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Centro Cientifico Tecnologico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educacion. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales; Argentina