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Journalism, Memory and the ‘Crowd-Sourced Video Revolution’

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This chapter considers how the nature of journalistic memory work is changing in our ‘new memory ecology’ (Brown and Hoskins, 2010; Hoskins, 2011), when smartphone-carrying citizens are replacing professional journalists as on-site eyewitnesses to breaking news stories and, consequently, filling in as key producers of images that linger as historical markers of disruptive events. Camera images, still and moving, are critical ‘technologies of memory’ (Sturken, 1997): key representations through which public memories are created, questioned and given meaning. This is also to say that the significance of journalism as a key institution of mnemonic record, and its centrality in broader cultural memory formation, hinges on the special potential of images for shaping public understanding and memory.

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  1. University of Pennsylvania, USA

    Barbie Zelizer

  2. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

    Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt

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Andén-Papadopoulos, K. (2014). Journalism, Memory and the ‘Crowd-Sourced Video Revolution’. In: Zelizer, B., Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K. (eds) Journalism and Memory. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263940_10

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