Article: Editorial
Abstract
The medium television has been accused of being amnesiac or a producer of forgetfulness. However, researchers have discovered the many ways the mass media, including television, transform memories and affect not only the way societies remember, but also the way memories must be studied and conceptualized. Collective memories are often seen as institutionalized memories, which we can analyse through official manifestations such as ceremonies, monuments, or even major television programmes.While the texts presented in this issue do not deal with the theory of collective memory, they will suggest various ways of conceptualizing memories, not at the stable, “hard” level of institutions, museums, monuments, but rather at the level of more dynamic memory practices that take place in the contemporary media landscape as an ongoing, active and performative engagement with the past.
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Bourdon, Jérôme; Hagedoorn, Berber: Editorial. In: VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, Jg. 2 (2013-06-30), Nr. 3, S. 1-3. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14063.
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title = {Editorial},
year = 2013-06-30,
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volume = 2,
address = {Hilversum},
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author = {Bourdon, Jérôme and Hagedoorn, Berber},
title = {Editorial},
year = 2013-06-30,
doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14063}",
volume = 2,
address = {Hilversum},
journal = {VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture},
number = 3,
pages = {1--3},
}
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