This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of Media Memory and brings Media and Mediation to the forefront of Collective Memory research. The essays explore a diversity of media technologies (television, radio, film and new media), genres (news, fiction, documentaries) and contexts (US, UK, Spain, Nigeria, Germany and the Middle East).

TAMAR ASHURI Lecturer at Ben-Gurion University's Department of Communication Studies and in the School of Communications at Sapir College, Israel AVNER BEN-AMOS Professor of History of Education at the School of Education, Tel-Aviv University, Israel DAN BERKOWITZ Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa, USA S. ELIZABETH BIRD Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida, USA JÉRÔME BOURDON Professor in the Department of Communications, Tel Aviv University, Israel IRIT DEKEL Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for German Studies of the European Forum, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel JILL A. EDY Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Oklahoma, USA PAUL FROSH Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication and Journalism at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel ANDREW HOSKINS Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK TAMAR KATRIEL Professor in the Department of Communication and the Department of Leadership and Policy in Education at the University of Haifa, Israel CAROLYN KITCH Professor of Journalism in the School of Communications and Theatre at Temple University, USA NETA KLIGLER-VILENCHIK Ph.D. Candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, USA AMIT PINCHEVSKI Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel ANNA READING Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at London South Bank University, UK JOSÉ CARLOS RUEDA LAFFOND Senior Lecturer at the Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain VERED VINITZKY-SEROUSSI Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and a Faculty Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Sociology at Yale University, USA NIMROD SHAVIT Graduate student in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA NA'AMA SHEFFI Associate Professor at the School of Communication in Sapir College, Sderot, Israel KEREN TENENBOIM-WEINBLATT Doctoral candidate at The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, USA BARBIE ZELIZER Raymond Williams Chair of Communication at the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Note on Contributors Editors' Introduction PART I: MEDIA MEMORY: THEORY AND METHODOLOGIES Cannibalizing Memory in the Global Flow of News; B.Zelizer The Democratic Potential of Mediated Collective Memory; J.A.Edy 'Round Up the Unusual Suspects': Banal Commemoration and the Role of the Media; V.Vinitzky-Seroussi Media Remembering: The Contribution of Life Story Methodology to Memory/Media Research; J.Bourdon PART II: MEDIA MEMORY, ETHICS AND WITNESSING Between Moral Activism and Archival Memory: The Testimonial Project of 'Breaking the Silence'; T.Katriel& N.Shavit Reclaiming Asaba: Old Media, New Media and the Construction of Memory; S.E.Bird Joint Memory: Mediating Evil and Suffering in a Digital Era; T.Ashuri PART III: MEDIA MEMORY AND POPULAR CULTURE Television and the Imagination of Memory ('Life on Mars'); P.Frosh Life History and National Memory: The Israeli Television Program 'Such a Life' (1972-2001); A.Ben-Amos& J.Bourdon History, Memory, and Means of Communication: The Caseof Jew Süss; N.Sheffi Localizing Collective Memory: Radio Broadcasts and the Construction of Regional Memory; M.Neiger, E.Zandberg& O.Meyers Televising the Sixties in Spain: Memories and Historical Constructions; J.C.R.Laffond PART IV: MEDIA MEMORY, JOURNALISM AND JOURNALISTIC PRACTICE Obamabilia and the Historic Moment: Institutional Authority and 'Deeply Consequential Memory' in Keepsake Journalism; C.Kitch Telling the Unknown through the Familiar: Collective Memory as Journalistic Device in a Changing Media Environment; D.Berkowitz Journalism as an Agent of Prospective Memory; K.Tenenboim-Weinblatt Towards Memory Setting: A Theoretical Examination of the Application of Agenda Setting Methodology to Collective Memory Research; N.K.Vilenchik PART V: NEW MEDIA MEMORY Digital Media, Global Memory: Developing an Epistemology for the Globital; A.Reading Archive, Media, Trauma; A.Pinchevski Mediated Space, Mediated Memory: Reflection, Impasses and Re-presentation at the Holocaust Memorial, Berlin; I.Dekel From Collective to Connective Memory; A.Hoskins Index