Television as a Hybrid Repertoire of Memory

Hagedoorn, Berber

doi:10.18146/2213-0969.2013.jethc032

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“…Furthermore, in the pluri -medial analysis, we examined multiple British and American media outlets, indicating that commentators and reviewers tend to see the fictionalization of historical events as a disturbing element. These reactions can be seen as positive engagement with the past, illustrating how cultural memory is shaped by performative acts in a dynamic process of remembrance (Erll, 2011; Hagedoorn, 2013; Rigney, 2012) and, in this case, the quest for historical truth. However, the very narrow focus of this engagement tends to reduce the content of this memory-making fiction (Erll, 2010) to what is right or wrong in the drama, while essential aspects of the historical narration or storyworld are simply ignored and are not a subject of critical discussions and reflections.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our premise is that streaming media platforms such as HBO Max (Statista, 2021c) and Netflix (Statista, 2021a) constitute essential medial frameworks that play a fundamental role in currently shaping cultural memory in terms of the platforms’ influence and interaction with viewers, for instance, in the case of curation and selection of content (Hagedoorn, 2013). In recent years, streaming media platforms have circulated successful series related to historical topics (Pallister, 2019).…”

Section: Cultural Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Beyond fact and fiction: Cultural memory and transmedia ethics in Netflix’s The Crown

Gambarato

Heuman

2022

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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The aim of this study is to discuss the potential ethical implications of the fictionalization of historical events represented across multiple media platforms – under the powerful umbrella of streaming media services en général and Netflix in particular – to examine the potential impact fictionalization has on what is culturally remembered and what is forgotten. Combining theoretical approaches from transmedia studies and cultural memory, the article addresses possible ethical conundrums involved in the Netflix historical drama series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II: The Crown. Methodologically, the article is structured as a case study underpinned by the multidimensional analytical model proposed by Erll, chosen to explore how the blurred lines between fact and fiction of the flagship historical drama The Crown could have ethical implications for and impact on what is remembered and what is forgotten regarding recent memories of the British Royal Family. The research findings indicate that a deeper understanding of the conventions of the historical fiction genre, as well as the transmedial ramifications of streaming media productions, could potentially mitigate the ethical implications of The Crown, going above and beyond fact and fiction.

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Section: Cultural Memorymentioning

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Beyond fact and fiction: Cultural memory and transmedia ethics in Netflix’s The Crown

Gambarato

Heuman

2022

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…The digital television archive is, of course, a construction, a history--producing entity in itself, just like any other archive. This has also been pointed out in many other recent studies (Hagedoorn, 2013;Noordegraaf, 2010;Pajala, 2010), but although they focus on the socio-cultural construction of knowledge within the archive, they do not address the pre--selection process as a central theme. Mari Pajala's (2010) research focuses on archives hosted in Sweden, Britain, Finland, Ireland, and Spain and the social construction of memory.…”

Section: Producing Digital Histories In a Decontextualized Environmenmentioning

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Doing media history in a digital age: change and continuity in historiographical practices

Jensen

2015

Media, Culture & Society

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This article explores the challenges which digital media brings into the field of media history. It starts out by examining prominent television historians' understanding of digital archives as revolutionizing media historiography. These claims are examined by holding them up against texts that discuss wider issues in historiographical practices related to television history and transnational comparisons. This investigation is paired with my own experiences and the many methodological challenges I have encountered using digitalized sources for my new research. I end up concluding that digital archives in themselves make little difference to scholarly media history. In light of the lacking impact, I argue that we should study the cultural economy of these archives to better understand the corporate, political, and economical structures that govern their content and which also set the course for online digital processes that are active history-producing entities themselves. Keywords: archive digital media media history social memory television transnational I took my first steps into the field of television history in 2006. This was the middle of a decade in which European broadcasting corporations began to share their audiovisual collections with the public via digital archives. For my first project, however, I never had the chance to use a digital archive as, in the end, nothing I wanted to see was digitalized. Returning to the field almost a decade later, things seem to be quite different: the archives of several European broadcasting corporations can be accessed online, and we have the digital, online pan-European television archive 'EUscreen'. Institutionally, it seems there has been a massive effort to make audiovisual material available to the wider public in digital archives. Parallel to this process, blogs, wikis, and other sites with user-generated content are increasingly places where material for research projects can be found. In the process of looking for data, the wealth of written online material is only outshined by the abundance of clips on YouTube and similar sites. With these new contributions to media history, it looks like digital media has come to play a significant historiographical role. However, what appears to be an age where digitalization is revolutionizing media history, and an Internet connection is all one needs to collect data, is also a time that brings media historians face to face with new ethical and methodological problems. Investigating these problems on the basis of personal experience, this piece explores a set of challenges new digital media brings into media history.

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“…More importantly, Erll (2011: 113) poses that "cultural memory is unthinkable without media," and Hagedoorn (2013) updates the original conceptualization of cultural memory, connecting it to digital formats of media distribution. In addition to the role of media at the individual level, Erll (2011: 113) stresses that in the collective dimension, the construction and circulation of cultural memory are "only possible with the aid of media."…”

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“…The current technological conditions for memory mediation demand an updated view on cultural memory. Departing from Assmann’s (2010) considerations on people’s active and passive remembering and forgetting, and in contrast to traditional unilateral memory mediation, Hagedoorn (2013) contributes with a dynamic and interactive perspective on cultural memory. Hagedoorn’s focus on the active role of digital television viewers in the distribution of content, whether intentional or not, highlights how the selecting and sorting processes of digitally stored archives are pushed by users, as well as by technology, to be carried out at an increasingly faster pace.…”

Section: Cultural Memory In a (Post-)television Agementioning

confidence: 99%

Streaming media and the dynamics of remembering and forgetting: TheChernobylcase

Gambarato¹,

Heuman²,

Lindberg

2021

Memory Studies

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The aim of this study is to elucidate the mnemonic conditions established in the ever-increasing production and use of cultural memory in streaming media environments. To gain in-depth insight into how memories are selected for remembering and sorted for forgetting, the focus is the HBO Chernobyl mini-series. The case study of HBO’s Chernobyl is selected to qualitatively explore cultural memories across the series throughout the complexities of globally connected technologies and markets, where different cultures and languages, as well as media framings, come into play. Theoretically, the article is based on conceptualization of cultural memory studies and streaming media platforms. Methodologically, the case study is supported by the multidimensional analytical lens developed by Erll, adopted to elucidate how the cultural memory of Chernobyl is activated, mediated, and shaped by the streaming series. These three dimensions involve the intra-medial aspects of how memory is expressed within the representation itself, the inter-medial relations which designate the interplay with previous representations of the same historical event, and the pluri-medial contexts in which novels and films appear and exert their influence on cultural memory. In the three-dimension analysis, we address the construction and circulation of cultural memory from the production to the reception of the mini-series in multiple media environments and across borders, depicting the social, cultural, and political impact of streaming media productions.

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Television as a Hybrid Repertoire of Memory

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Beyond fact and fiction: Cultural memory and transmedia ethics in Netflix’s The Crown

Beyond fact and fiction: Cultural memory and transmedia ethics in Netflix’s The Crown

Doing media history in a digital age: change and continuity in historiographical practices

Streaming media and the dynamics of remembering and forgetting: TheChernobylcase

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