New book on social movements, cultural memory and digital media

Department of Sociology Research Fellow and DIGSUM Member, Sam Merrill is happy to announce the recent publication of a volume dedicated to social movements, cultural memory and digital media. The volume, which Sam edited with Emily Keightley (Loughborough University UK) and Priska Daphi (Bielefeld University, Germany), has been published as part of Palgrave Macmillan’s Memory Studies Series.

Establishing the digital memory work practices of social movements as an important area of research, the volume’s contributions reveal how activists use digital media to lay claim to, circulate and curate cultural memories. Interdisciplinary in scope, these contributions address case studies from Germany, the USA, Sweden, Argentina, India, the UK, Russia and Italy while employing methodologies that target digitally and non-digitally entangled mobilizations of mediated remembrance.

The chapters focus on topics including: memory’s role in transgender transmedia activism; the mnemonic appropriations of far-right movements; the human and non-human memory work of activist Facebook pages; the digital spread of historical protest photographs; the recycling of commemorative activist hashtags on Twitter; the diffusion of memories between local and transnational scales of activism; the mediatisation of memory-based performative protests via YouTube; digitally inflected notions of the living archive in contentious settings; and digital media witnessing as a future memory resource.

More details are available here.