Syllabus
All links, files and assignments are provided in Moodle course : https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=11399 17 February live meeting here: meet.google.com/scy-fjxv-dft
Opening session - rules and principles of the seminar, FAQ’s 24 February pre-recorded lecture (link in Moodle): https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=11399#section-2
Opening lecture: Theoretical framework for the study of memory in old and new media age
The lecture looks at the blossoming discipline of memory studies and sheds light on concepts which are useful starting points for enquiry into connections between memory and the workings of communication media. The lecture argues that there is a close nexus between memory and media which manifests itself in the ways memory is produced "in", "by" and "through" media. It pinpoints principal sites of media memory scholarship with emphasis on journalism, media’s engagement in stimulation of individual memory, media’s involvement in sedimentation of collective memory (mainly in channelling potential social hegemony) and transformation brought about by transfer of memory processes on the digital platform. 3 March independent home work and submission of response via Moodle
Memory and History: Seminal Ideas in the Study of the Collective Memory (Maurice Halbwachs, Henri Bergson, Paul Ricoeur, Pierre Nora, Jacques LeGof)
Garde-Hannsen, Joan (2011) Media and Memory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Chapter "Memory studies and media studies", pp. 13-30.
Available as PDF in SIS 10 March independent home work and submission of response via Moodle
Cultural Memory
Assmann, Jan (2008) Communicative and Cultural Memory. Pp. 109 - 125 in Erll, Astrid - Nünning, Ansgar (eds.) Cultural Memory Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter.
Available as PDF in SIS 17 March independent home work and submission of response via Moodle
Television and Collective Memory
Gray, Ann (2013) Televised Remembering. Pp. 79-97 in Michael Pickering - Emily Keightly (eds.) Research Methods for Memory Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Available in FSV library (Hollar) 24 March independent home work and submission of response via Moodle
Television Temporality
Uricchio, William. „TV as time machine: television´s changing heterochronic regimes and the production of history“. Pp. 27-40 in: Gripsrud Jostein (ed.). Relocating Television: Television in the Digital Context. London: Routledge.
Available in FSV library (Hollar) 31 March independent home work and submission of response via Moodle
Collective Memory as a Carrier of Nostalgia
Pickering, M. – Keightley, E. (2006) The modalities of nostalgia. Current Sociology, 54(6): 919–41.
Available via the digital database Sage Journals. 7 April independent home work and submission of response via Moodle
Post-socialist nostalgia
Nadkarni, M. – Shevchenko, O. (2004) The politics of nostalgia: A case for comparative analysis of post-socialist practices. Ab Imperio, 2: 487-519.
Available s PDF in SIS. 14 April independent home work and submission of response via Moodle
Collective Memory as a carrier of trauma
Alexander, Jeffrey C. (2004) Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma. Pp. 1-31 in Alexander, Jeffrey C. at al. (eds.) Cultural Trauma
Available in FSV library (Hollar) 21 April independent home work and submission of response via Moodle
Memory and produsage
Boudana, S.- Frosh, P. - Cohen, A. A. (2017) Reviving Icons To Death: When Historic Photographs Become Digital Memes. Media, Culture & Society, 39(8) 1210– 1230.
Available via the digital database Sage Journals. 28 April independent home work and submission of response via Moodle
Collective Memory in the Digital Age
Hoskins, Andrew (2009) Digital Networked Memory. Pp. 91-109 in Astrid Erll - Ann Rigney (eds.), Mediation, Remediation and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
Available in FSV library (Hollar) 5 May live meeting here: https://meet.google.com/scy-fjxv-dft?hs=122&authuser=0
Wrap-up meeting 13 May
Rector´s Day (class cancelled)
Annotation
The class is organized as a reading seminar - students read the assigned texts independently and provide written responses to the specified questions. The texts students read are illustrative of fundamental issues and polemics in the field of media and culture. Students read the pre-selected texts as their homework and they present their critical understanding of the text in their homeworks.
Content-wise, this seminar will introduce basic frameworks for the study of mediated memory. The individual and collective memory has been under detailed scrutiny in the field of media cultural studies as far as media are understood to be significant agents in the process of memory making.
The class opens with the introductory lecture which reviews seminal theoretical perspectives on memory in the fields of philosophy, sociology, anthropology, history and media studies. It pinpoints core concepts such as personal and collective memory, difference between memory, history and the past, nostalgia, trauma, discontinuity of memory, etc. These core concepts are further illuminated by the texts assigned for further reading and thus explained in detail step by step.