Travelling through theories of emotion and affect, this book addresses the key ways in which
media studies can be brought to bear upon everyday encounters with online cultures and …

The nascent field of Memory Studies emerges from contemporary trends that include a shift
from concern with historical knowledge of events to that of memory, from 'what we know'to …

In the digital age, the relationship between human memory and media is intimate and
impossible to separate. This understanding serves as the foundation for this study of …

Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a “museum object” in the form of
video interviews with individuals remembering events of historical importance. Such video …

Search engines, such as Google or Yandex, shape social reality by informing their users
about current and historical phenomena. However, there is little research on how search …

In this book, the author provides a comprehensive overview of the intense and sustained
work on the relationship between collective memory and history, retracing the royal roads …

This article addresses the lack of analysis of the specific ways in which the online
environment configures the relationship between the processual dynamics of nostalgia …

In 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) established the 'Right to be
Forgotten'(RtbF). Since its establishment, more than 500,000 people filed requests with …

If societies have only memories of war, of cruelty, of violence, then why are we called
humankind? This book marks a new trajectory in Memory Studies by examining cultural …

It is often claimed that modern media massively return the repressed yet unavoidable fact of
death, which modernity had institutionalised and placed out of sight. Death is everywhere in …