Social Memory Technology

Theory, Practice, Action

Karen Worcman, Joanne Garde-Hansen

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781317685302
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Social History
• Index: History

Memory is a fundamental aspect of being and becoming, intimately entwined with space, time, place, landscape, emotion, imagination and identity. Memory studies is a burgeoning field of enquiry drawing from a range of social science, arts and humanities disciplines including human geography, sociology, cultural studies, media studies, heritage and museum studies, psychology and history.

This book is a critically theorised practical exposition of how media and technology are used to make memories for museums, archives, social movements and community projects, looking at specific cases in the UK and Brazil where the authors have put these theories into practice. The authors define the protocol they present as social memory technology. Critically, this book is about learning to deal with our pasts and learning new methods of connecting our pasts across cultures toward a shared understanding and application of memory technologies.

Index

Note: page numbers in italics refer to illustrations

• ABC De Luta project 93
• Aberdeen University 97
• ABERJE (Associa? Brasileira de Comunica? Empresarial) 89
• Aboriginal culture 27, 70
• access issues
  • archives 27, 37
  • digitisation 130, 180
  • Internet 27, 37–8, 130
  • memory work 183
• The Act of Killing/The Look of Silence (Oppenheimer) 2
• affect 27, 32, 58
• Aguilar, P. 11
• Aguilar Mansanare, A. de C. 84
• Akenberg, I. 58
• Allen, M. 39
• Almanaque Mem?? dos Trabalhadores Petrobras 94–5
• Almeida, V. 80, 80–1, 83
• Amazonian Transformations 103–4, 105, 108–11
  • community 107
  • mapping of 158
  • memory 114
  • mobilising a group 144–5
  • working with schools 117
  • work plan 154
• Anand, V. 86
• Anderson, B. 13
• Ang, I. 71–2, 76
• Anheier, H. K. 42, 71, 106
• An Anthropologist on Mars (Sacks) 52–3
• Anzald? 15
• appropriated technology 54–5, 56
• Aracati 124
• Araujo, A. L. 23
• archives
  • access 27, 37
  • commercialised 30
  • control of 100–1
  • corporate 86, 88
  • donations to 79
  • Hidden Lives 73
  • remembering 100
• Argentina 6, 55, 118n5, 191
• Assmann, J. 25, 30, 43
• As...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Series
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Human Memory as Intangible Heritage
• Section I What is Social Memory Technology?
• Section II Case Studies from the UK and Brazil
• Section III Social Memory Technology in Action
• Conclusion: Future Social Memory Technology Projects
• References
• Index