1st Edition

Streaming Media and Cultural Memory in a Postdigital Society

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers a relevant contribution to the studies of streaming media and transmediality with an original approach of cultural sustainability perfectly intertwined with cultural memory beyond borders. By critically reflecting on popular streaming media series, the book identifies their impact on the global circulation of cultural memory, their learning potential for educational purposes,... Read more

 Introduction: The cultural (un)sustainability of streaming media in a postdigital society

1. Mrs. America and the learning potential of streaming media

2. Remembering and forgetting Chernobyl

3. The ethical controversies of The Crown

4. Between universal and South Korean cultural memory in Squid Game

5. Transmedia activism in The Handmaid’s Tale 

Final considerations

Biography

Renira Rampazzo Gambarato is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Jönköping University, Sweden.

Johannes Heuman is Associate Professor of History at Södertörn University, Sweden.