Digital Memory, Moving Images, and the Absorption of Historical Experience

Immersive Technology: Towards a Kineikonic Dialogism in Challenging the Myth of the Frame

“…Impressive as it may seem, immersive visual technology has yet to prove, in general, its advantages over current media technologies in the arena of communication, information dissemination, and visual culture. Nonetheless, because of the speed of the advancements achieved by information technology, the humanistic study of ImT as a social phenomenon must catch up (LeMahieu, 2011). Engineers and scientists who are themselves involved in the development of the technology recognize the significance of such study.…”

“…Offline, it has been applied to various purposes, from education and information dissemination, to art appreciation and entertainment (Marrins, 2016). It has found itself in the service of curatorial historiography, creating a digital memory of the past through the archiving, curating, and archeological modeling of historical edifices and artifacts (LeMahieu, 2011). Its visual characteristic has been utilized in making big data conveniently comprehensible and interactive.…”

Media and popular modernism around the Pacific War: An inter-Asian story

“…How, then, to avoid a thicket of particulars so dense that no patterns of movement or lines of connection may be discerned? Precisely because change is a constant feature of mediated cultural economies, I share LeMahieu’s (2011) caution that ‘emphasis on historical change too often and too easily forecloses historical continuities’ (p. 98); the difficult study of the latter in popular culture can be the best way to make more measured sense of the former. It is easily overlooked, for example, that their relative cheapness and accessibility give old media a key role in narrating the advent of social and cultural changes and thus in shaping the popular uptake of new technologies and their significance when they arrive; millions of readers acquired their first ‘memories’ of experiencing cyberspace from a novel, William Gibson’s (1984) Neuromancer .…”

“…Audience and critical reception research are important ways of grounding the study of ‘prosthetic’ (Landsberg, 2004) or ‘alimentative’, that is, absorbed (LeMahieu, 2011) mediated memories in transnational circulation. However, I am also interested in how people dealt with earlier periods of media innovation and expansion.…”