Christine Lohmeier

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.

The Islamophobia Studies Yearbook is a bi-lingual periodical that started as a German language journal and has now been offering articles in German and English since 2010. The journal uses double blind peer review and provides a forum for interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the phenomenon of Islamophobia. Case studies and analyses of contemporary incidents from the realm of media, politics, law, and discrimination are as much welcome as are theoretical reflections. The Yearbook intends to present the most current perspectives on a growing phenomenon that needs severe attention.

Die Nutzung sozialer Medien hat die Möglichkeiten der Erinnerung und der Er-innerungskultur verändert. Während es früher vor allem sogenannten ‚memory agents' wie Journalist*innen, Autor*innen und Museen möglich war, Erinnerun-gen an historische Figuren zu verbreiten, zeigt sich nun ein viel breiteres Feld an Akteur*innen. So finden sich auf Facebook, Twitter und Instagram Accounts von historischen Persönlichkeiten, mit diversen Zielen und sehr unterschiedli-chen Herangehensweisen und zum Teil unbekannten Initiator*innen. Für den vorliegenden Text werden Accounts historischer Figuren auf Instagram ana-lysiert und typologisiert. Konzeptuell werden die Accounts als Beiträge einer Polyphonie der Erinnerungen eingeordnet. Durch diese Variation mediatisier-ter Erinnerungen ergeben sich Fragen der Wissensvermittlung in informellen Bildungskontexten und ebenso in Bezug auf ihr Potenzial, das Interesse für Geschichte und Erinnerungsarbeit zu wecken und zu erhalten. Social media have changed the ways in which we engage with history and memory. While it used to be journalists, authors and museums-the so-called memory agents-who had an impact on what and how people remember individually and collectively, different groups of people can now contribute to mediatized remembering. Some have created accounts of historical figures on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. These accounts pursue different aims and take a variety of different approaches. We present a typology of historic accounts on Instagram. On a conceptual level, we see these accounts as contributions to a polyphony of memory. While there is great potential in broadening the scope of mediatized remembering, the presented findings also raise questions about conveying history beyond formal education.

The chapter considers how the concept of communicative figurations can be employed in researching communities and collectivities. In a first step, we introduce the concept of communicative figuration and then consider how the concept can be made fruitful with regard to the necessities and challenges regarding two central steps of the research process: (1) approaching cross-media research and (2) defining the field. In the final section we illustrate our considerations by giving the example of an 'ideal' study design for a research project on the communicative construction of family memory.

This article explores the nature and extent of the delivery of public service broadcasting (PSB) by alternative models and actors in Latin America. The main hypothesis is that PSB is delivered in Venezuela not by the state but by the Roman Catholic Church.

Panel-Rationale: The panel explores the role of memory work in current political conflicts, protest movements, and social unrest that become increasingly conducted and communicated through connective and ubiquitous media. It contributes to the conference's overall theme and the section's focus area on Social Media, Activism and Social Change by assembling an array of both scholarship and practical reflection on the ways in which mediated practices and representations of past beliefs, tactics, bonds, or experiences come to play a role in times of struggle so to remember past or to constitute novel conflicts. It does so with an interest in the production and circulation of memories for protest via digitally networked technologies. Conceptually, the papers share the idea that coming to terms with challenging instances of public life is essential both in the present and in the future. More specifically, as the theoretically oriented Paper #1 sets out, the panel focuses on the relation between retrospective memories and the prospective employment of memories of conflict and disrupted communities in an increasingly mediated world. Its empirically-based Papers #2 to #5 deal with diverse locales as well as political, social, economic, or environmental contexts in considering collective media-related approaches of coping with and making sense of things past while accomplishing the present and projecting the future. Common threads, which run through all papers, are, first, a shared interest in times of conflict and crisis that, on the one hand, demand resolution and recovery and which, on the other, often come with the chance to review and revise old and new ways of living. Second, the contributions investigate the projective use of past feelings, ideas, relations, or strategies. Third, acknowledging the 'mediation of everything', they focus on the role of digital and connective media in order to renegotiate , revitalize, and rethink communities. By bringing together cognate inquiries, the panel seeks to advance understanding of the moving relationship of memories and media in troubled times. For one, the panel considers how the presence of conflict can come to bear upon memories of things past. Hence it asks: What is remembered in conflict and what is remembered of conflict? How are memories

This paper will draw on a series of interviews with protesters to reflect upon the construction of memory across different technological generations, and to investigate the way in which some versions of the past become definitive and define the strategies, tactics and ideologies of the future.
The move away from institutionalised politics/protest means that there are no formalised memory systems that can be relied upon to connect different generations of protesters. This paper will ask whether, in the absence of organisational continuity, the internet can maintain memory across different generations of activists and therefore transfer knowledge from the past, through the present and into the future. In doing so it will focus on the way in which collective memories may be shaped by a) the internal dynamics of autonomous protest and b) the fear of surveillance from external bodies such as journalists and the police.
This project is significantly different from the work being carried out in the field. Whereas research into social movements’ use of media and communications tends to focus on the brief moments in which power becomes visible through spectacle and/or confrontation, this project will focus on the periods in between these peaks. In doing so it will take the emphasis on action which characterises social movements studies and the emphasis on speed and intensity which characterises media and communication studies and slow these dynamics down in order to explore the hidden genealogies of protest.