Memory Studies examines the cultural, cognitive, political and technological shifts affecting the way individuals, groups and societies remember, and forget.
As journalism becomes just another “input” alongside data centres and semiconductors, are we in danger of losing sight of the importance of serendipity and the chance encounter in journalism, asks @andrewhoskins —“the intentionality that turns an accident into a record.””
Is journalism's soul already lost?
Generative AI and the death of the journalist as human memory-maker
Just published in @MMMJournal@LauraGuien
https://t.co/27DFUdpxaW
The first accepted article is out in the #MMM special collection "Collective Future Thinking at Times of War and Conflict Collection." https://t.co/wdK5W5Z6rz
Russian future thinking during its war in Ukraine | Memory, Mind & Media | Cambridge Core - https://t.co/YQUDP2c0Ix
Remembering and forgetting through digital trajectories of war
Third fully funded (Home/UK fees) PhD scholarship on my ERC/UKRI Warshare project, University of Edinburgh
https://t.co/nT6fwaUzbT
https://t.co/WwpsBCVssg
My new article @memorystudies: “Processing absence: No-body techniques and the impossibility of mourning among relatives of the disappeared in Ayacucho.”
The paper examines how relatives navigate loss, sustain bonds, and pursue truth.
https://t.co/zCuQU1cc6j
*Manga studies* is also - thinking about Japanese comics.
"This study examines the role of gakushū manga, or educational Japanese comics, in shaping collective memory narratives of World War II."
https://t.co/MD0U4xno4L
🚨 New Collection Alert!
Memory, Mind & Media presents the Comics, Memory, Activism Collection.
📰 Read the full collection now: https://t.co/fu7xFHJAPc
@andrewhoskins@MMMJournal
Come and join my research team at @EdinburghUni!
Following my ERC Adv/UKRI Award for my project: WARSHARE: Digital Participation in War,
I am now recruiting THREE PhD scholarships beginning Sept 2026!
Full details here:
https://t.co/OLHcH6rQp6
FALL OF LIVING MEMORY:
Forgetting the Atomic Bombings of Japan
Just published in @RUSI_org Journal!
Will AI save or obliterate the past?
Luli van der Does and I draw on @davidrieff's fabulous work on forgetting.
https://t.co/gh46IixPWJ
Open Call for Abstract Submissions
After Memory: Shifting Perceptions of Time and Temporality in the Digital Condition
Abstract proposals due 15th December
Learn more: https://t.co/Cnwj6v7tOr
New article: Memory of the multitude and representation in AI-generated images of war - https://t.co/Wx9DnrZYzu
By Nataliia Laba, Nataliya Roman & John H. Parmelee
#generativeAI#AIimages#warrepresentation