The Routledge Companion to Media and Memory

Introduction: Media Memory, Everywhere and All at Once
Red Chidgey and Joanne Garde-Hansen

Part I
Media Memory Industries and Institutions

1. Ambiguities of Algorithmic Memory
Benjamin N. Jacobsen

2. Memory and Artificial Intelligence: Towards a Critical Materialist Approach and an Ethics of Care
Rik Smit and Mykola Makhortykh

3. Memory and Digitized Mourning: The Affective Entanglements of Grief-Tech
Deborah Madden

4. Remembering Machine Learning’s Memories of Women on Screen
Joanne Garde-Hansen, Tanaya Guha and Sanjay Sharma

5. Pandemic and Collective Memory: Between Institutional Commemoration and TikTok Vernaculars
Dario Lucchesi and Vincenzo Romania

6. Netflix and the Nostalgia Economy in Latin America
Rodrigo Muñoz-González

7. The Neglected Dimension? Memory and Transmedia Tourism
Ross Garner

8. Creative Gaming Entrepreneurship: Unlocking Suspended Memories of Politically Censored Pasts
Hsiao-wen Lee

Part II
Media Memory Forms, Practices and Audiences

9. Neurodiversity, Media and Memory
Anna Reading

10. Reading Colonial Aphasia through Comics: The Multi-Directional Memory of Slavery in Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martínez’s Wake
Clara Vlessing and Red Chidgey

11. (Re-)Playing Yugoslavia: Memory Mediation in Independent Video Games
Natalija Majsova

12. (Dis)Remembering Colonial Violence in Journalism: An Emergent Field of Research
Kaya de Wolff

13. Violence and Smiles: Visual Tropes and Affect in the Photography of Perpetration
Mario Panico

14. Patriotic Education through Film: Memory, Ideology and Nationalistic Sentiments in China
Joanna Nawrotkiewicz

15. Audience Remediation of the Past: Mainland Chinese Young People Rewatching Taiwanese Idol Dramas on Social Media
Andong Li

16. ‘Long Live’: Remembering Star Trek and The Lord of the Rings through Vidding Taylor Swift
Sebastian F.K. Svegaard

17. ‘In the Pines’: The Inadvertent Archives of a Folk Song
Eric Weisbard

Part III
Creativity and Critique

18. Inadvertent Memory: Beyond the Commemorative Realm
Alyssa Grossman

19. DeepStory, NFTs and Tamagotchis: Reconceptualizing Memory Objects in Contemporary Media Environments
Christine Lohmeier and Rieke Böhling

20. Container Technologies, Memory and the World
Martin Pogačar and Red Chidgey

21. Extended Cinema as Decolonial Form of Memory Media
Arnoud Arps

22. Afrofuturist Remembering: Mediated Archives and the Data Subject
Aisha P.L. Kadiri

23. Synthetic Memory and Algorithmic Afterlives in the Age of Generative AI
Eva Nieto McAvoy and Jenny Kidd

24. Holding Memories: Everyday Objects as Tactile Archives
Valerio Signorelli, Leah Lovett, Andrew Hudson-Smith and Martin De Jode

25. Memorializing Gaming’s Growing Pains: Ambivalent Nostalgia in Videogame Culture
Rob Gallagher

Part IV
Methods and Approaches

26. A Biocentric Approach to Memory: Collaborative Memory Production with Indigenous Communities in Brazil
Karen Worcman

27. Memory Sounds: Connected Listening Across Age(s)
Abigail Gardner

28. Methods: Web Archive as Embedded Memories
Sophie Gebeil and Frédéric Clavert

29. Remembering while Scrolling: The Scroll-Back Interview as Digital Memory Work Method
Taylor Annabell

30. Holocaust Memory in Play: A New Framework for Video Game Analysis
Ella Banyan and Noam Tirosh

31. Bringing Television History Home: Archive, Memory, Place
Helen Wheatley

32. Radio, Acoustic Memory and the Legacy of David Oluwale
Iana Nikitenko

33. From Pictures to Memories and Back: Unlocking Memories and Sharing Dialogues with Children
Vittorio Iervese

Part V
Activism and Political Imagination

34. Platforming Memory: Online Testimony and the Collective Remembrance of Sexual Violence
Rosanne Kennedy and Emmaline A. Monteith

35. “Ashes Feel like Freedom”: Plantation Fire as Mediated Memory and Racial Reckoning
Lucy Bond and Jessica Rapson

36. Activist Memories, Community Archives and the Anti-Racist Political Imagination
Kirsten Forkert

37. Archiving Narratives of Conflict: TikTok, Memory and the Documentation of War in Ukraine
Elena Liber

38. ‘Stolen Lives’: On Live Memory and Transmedia Activism
Julián Penagos-Carreño

39. Tuvalu Under Tears, Ocean and Construction: Media Discourse on the First Nation that Will Become Virtual
Jagoda Mytych

40. Sustaining Memory Activism through Citizen Science after Fukushima
Yasuhito Abe

41. Far-Right Digital Memory Activism: Emergent Trends in the (Mis)Appropriation of Human Rights Discourse in Post-Dictatorial Chile
Carolina Aguilera, Manuela Badilla, Daniela Jara and Nicolás Villarroel

42. Memory in a Future of AI-Generated Content and Visual Politics
Manuel Menke, Sandra Kero and Christian Schwarzenegger

Biography

Red Chidgey is Reader in Gender, Media and Culture at King’s College London, UK. Their research explores the intersections of media, memory and activism. They are the author of Feminist Afterlives: Assemblage Memory in Activist Times (2018) and Museums, Archives and Protest Memory (with Joanne Garde-Hansen, 2024).

Joanne Garde-Hansen is Professor of Culture, Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research focuses on Media and Memory Studies. Her book Media and Memory (2011) was translated into Chinese in 2023. She published Media and Water (2021) and Museums, Archives and Protest Memory (with Red Chidgey, 2024).