12 Nov 2017 Media Development 2017-4 Editorial
Memory is power and power is politics.
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12 Nov 2017 Asylum seekers, new media, and society’s memory
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’...
12 Nov 2017 Video games, transmedia, and cultural memory
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...
12 Nov 2017 Go-ogle: Gender and memory in the “globital” age
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.
12 Nov 2017 Digital narratives: me, us, and who else?
“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...
12 Nov 2017 Museums that travel
“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...
12 Nov 2017 The political economy of historical digital games
The late science-fiction author Octavia Butler once wrote in her unpublished work Parable of the Trickster that: “There’s nothing new / under the sun, / but there are new suns.”
...12 Nov 2017 It’s Time … a speech that shaped a life and Australia
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...
12 Nov 2017 Rights at Risk: Observatory on the Universality of Rights Trends Report 201
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.
12 Nov 2017 The Meaning of Life: Locarno Film Festival 2017
The 70th Locarno film festival − held during the first days of August on the shores of Lake Maggiore on the border of Italy and Switzerland − again proved magical. But as Golshifteh Farahani, an actress staring in The Song...