On Media Memory

This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of Media Memory and brings Media and Mediation to the forefront of Collective Memory research. The essays explore a diversity of media technologies (television, radio, film and new media), genres (news, fiction, documentaries) and contexts (US, UK, Spain, Nigeria, Germany and the Middle East).

MOTTI NEIGER is Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication at Netanya Academic College, Israel. He served as the president of the Israel Communication Association (2006-2009) and as the founding editor of Media Frames: Israeli Journal of Communication. His academic interests include various aspects of the correlations between media and culture: mediated collective memory, journalism during conflicts and the role of culture mediators. He has published articles in journals such as Media, Culture & Society, Journal of Communication, Journalism and Communication, and Culture & Critique.

OREN MEYERS is Lecturer in the Department of Communication at the University of Haifa, Israel. His research interests include journalistic values and practices, collective memory and popular culture. He has published articles in journals such as Journal of Communication, The Communication Review, Journalism, Journalism Studies, Media, Culture & Society and The Journal of Popular Culture.

EYAL ZANDBERG is Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication at Netanya Academic College, Israel. His research interests focus on the interrelations between collective memory and the media, especially on the memory of the Holocaust in popular culture and on journalistic practices during times of war and conflict. He has published articles in journals such as Media, Culture & Society, Journal of Communication and Communication, Culture & Critique.