Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media

Samuel Merrill is a researcher at the Digital Social Research Centre, Umea University, Sweden. He is co-chair of the Memory Studies Association's Memory and Activism working group and author of Networked Remembrance: Excavating Buried Memories in the Railways beneath London and Berlin (2017). His research interests centre on social movements, collective memory, cultural heritage, and digital media with respect to a broadly conceived underground (spatial, political, creative and technological). Emily Keightley is Professor of Media and Memory Studies at the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture at Loughborough University, UK, and Editor of Media, Culture & Society. Her research focuses on memory, time, and their mediation in everyday life. Priska Daphi is Professor of Conflict Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany, and co-founder of the Institute for Protest and Social Movements Studies in Berlin. She is author of Becoming a Movement. Identity, Narrative and Memory in the European Global Justice Movement (2017) and co-editor of Conceptualizing Culture in Social Movement Research (2017).

1. Introduction: The Digital Memory Work Practices of Social Movements.-2. Trans Memory as Transmedia Activism.- 3. Who is the Volk? PEGIDA and the Contested Memory of 1989 on Social Media.- 4. Connective memory work on Justice for Mike Brown.- 5. Following The Woman with the Handbag: Mnemonic Context Collapse and the Antifascist Activist Appropriation of an Iconic Historical Photograph.- 6. #ioricordo, beyond the Genoa G8: social practices of memory work and the digital remembrance of contentious pasts in Italy.- 7. In Between Old and New, Local and Transnational: Social Movements, Hybrid Media and the Challenges of Making Memories Move.- 8. Archiving the Repertoire, Performing the Archive:Virtual Iterations of Second-Generation Activism in Post-Dictatorship Argentina.- 9. How to Curate a 'Living Archive': The Restlessness of Activist Time and Labour.- 10. 'We Will Not Forget, We Will Not Forgive!': Alexei Navalny, Youth Protest and the Art of Curating Digital Activism and Memory in Russia.- 11. Afterword/Afterweb: The Antisocial Memory Assemblage.

"Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media provides an important foundation for future interdisciplinary research of memory and media in movement. It will be of great value to experienced and junior scholars. Despite its sometimes heavy use of jargon, it may even inform students and activists." (Yifat Gutman, Mobilization, December, 2020)