Anachronisms of Media, Anachronisms of Memory: From Collective Memory to a New Memory Ecology

Abstract

This essay highlights uneasy orientations to the ‘collective’ in contemporary discourses of memory and suggests its resonance is in part embedded in another out-of-synch conceptualization of the ‘collective’, namely that of the ‘mass media’. Instead, the paradigm shifts in the fields of media studies and memory studies require a bolder and more comprehensive vision of the nature of media and memory in terms of contemporary ‘ecologies’ of media/memory (cf. Brown and Hoskins, 2010). This approach illuminates ‘connectivity’ as one of the key dynamics in the forging and reforging of what I have called the ‘mediatization of memory’. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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