Master
2023/2024
Mediatization of Memory
Type:
Elective course (Critical Media Studies)
Area of studies:
Media Communications
Delivered by:
Institute of Media
When:
2 year, 2 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Irina Dushakova
Master’s programme:
Критические медиаисследования
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
24
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course focuses on ways to study the relationship between memory and media. On the one hand, it allows to respond to current trends in the media field associated with the growing interest in historical events in the media, with the creation of numerous projects and databases that declare their goal is to preserve memory, as well as new technologies that remind users of past events or intended for various commemorative practices. At the same time, the course involves working with theoretical approaches to solving such issues as, for example, the relationship between media production processes and memory construction, framing events that allow building memory around certain semantic points, etc. Such work can be carried out on the basis of both classical works ( studies by M. Halbwachs, P. Nora, R. Koselleck), and modern (works by J. and A. Assman, M. Hirsch, J. Kog, M. Rotberg).