TY - BOOK ID - 78674171 TI - Silence, screen, and spectacle : rethinking social memory in the age of information and new media AU - Freeman, Lindsey A. AU - Nienass, Benjamin. AU - Daniell, Rachel. PY - 2014 SN - 178238281X 9781782382812 9781782382805 1785333550 1782382801 1306545935 9781785333552 PB - New York, New York ; Oxford, England : Berghahn Books, DB - UniCat KW - Mass media and history. KW - Collective memory. KW - Memorialization. KW - Mass media KW - Information technology KW - Mass communication KW - Media, Mass KW - Media, The KW - Communication KW - Memorialisation KW - Memorials KW - Collective remembrance KW - Common memory KW - Cultural memory KW - Emblematic memory KW - Historical memory KW - National memory KW - Public memory KW - Social memory KW - Memory KW - Social psychology KW - Group identity KW - National characteristics KW - History and mass media KW - History KW - Technological innovations KW - Social aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78674171 AB - In an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed. This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese Americans in WWII, the Canadian Indian Residential School system, Israeli memorial videos, and the desaparecidos in Argentina. Through these cases, the contributors argue for a re-inte ER -