Media Development 2017/4 Digital Media and Social Memory p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} How are digital media technologies transforming human relationships, human behaviour, and human beings themselves? It is important to test...
Memory is power and power is politics.
...More than 60 million people were forcefully displaced from their homes in recent years, making the contemporary refugee crisis the most significant human tragedy of contemporary times. At the borders of “Fortress Europe”, in huge camps all through the Middle East, asylum seekers’...
I’ve played video games for as long as I can remember. From the electronic games like Munchman and Astro Wars developed by the British and New Zealand manufacturer Grandstand in the 1970s and 1980s, through my first Atari computer in 1983, to arcade...
“I’m here to tell you a little bit of my story, and I’d like you to please read to the end. My name is R, I’m 29 years old and I’m from a working class family - or perhaps I should say from...
For millennia humankind has given future generations access to the past by making recitords of events and genealogies. Now we go-ogle the past through the internet.
“New museology” is a notion which has been gaining popularity in museum studies since the 1980s when Peter Vergo (1989) proposed it in a book he edited. The “novelty” of new museology concerns a shift of focus in museum work: redefining...
The late science-fiction author Octavia Butler once wrote in her unpublished work Parable of the Trickster that: “There’s nothing new / under the sun, / but there are new suns.”
...The following article is part of a memories project being carried out with a ;local council in Sydney, Australia, recording memories of senior citizens in a city that has changed culturally and geographically and in many other ways. Stories are recorded in video...
The trend is unmistakable and deeply alarming: in international human rights spaces, religious fundamentalists are now operating with increased impact, frequency, coordination, resources, and support.
