SOCIAL MEMORY
(page 8 of the interdisciplinary
study of memory pages)
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Notes. May 2008. I've again added some new material, including
four
new categories (12-15).
March 2005: I've updated this list
with the most important new material I've found. The artificiality of
my categories is glaring but if you scroll around you shouldn't miss.
MEMORY:
Social Memory, Collective
Memory, External Memory/
Memory in History,
Anthropology, Sociology, Media Theory
1. Introductions and General
Work on Social and Collective Memory
Jan
Assmann,
'Collective Memory
and Cultural Identity', New German Critique 65 (spring/summer
1995),
125-133
* Frederic C. Bartlett, Remembering (Cambridge
UP, 1932)
* Geof Bowker, Memory Practices in the Sciences (MIT
Press, 2005)
* Sue Campbell, Relational Remembering: rethinking the
memory wars (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003)
* Paul Connerton, How
Societies
Remember (Cambridge UP, 1989). Chapters on Social Memory,
Commemorative
Ceremonies, and Bodily Practices.
* Susan Engel, Context is Everything: the nature of memory (Princeton
U.P., 1999), chapters 5 & 6
James Fentress & Chris Wickham, Social Memory
(Oxford: Blackwell, 1992)
John Frow, 'Toute la
mémoire
du monde: repetition and forgetting', in Frow, Time and Commodity Culture (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1997)
Noa Gedi and Yigal Elam, 'Collective Memory - what is it?', History and Memory 8 (1996), 30-50
Brian F Havel, 'In Search of a Theory of Public Memory: the state, the
individual, and Marcel Proust', Indiana
Law Journal 80 (2005), 605-726
Michael G Kenny, 'A Place for Memory: the interface between individual
and collective history', Comparative
Studies
in Society and History 41 (1999), 420-437
* Kerwin Lee Klein, 'On the Emergence of Memory in Historical
Discourse', Representations 69 (2000): 127-150.
Philip Kuberski, The Persistence of Memory: organism, myth, text
(California UP, 1992)
* Marius Kwint, 'Introduction: the physical past', in Kwint (eds), Material
Memories (Berg, 1999)
Marie-Claire Lavabre, ‘For
a Sociology of Collective Memory’
David Lowenthal, The Past
is a Foreign Country (Cambridge UP, 1985). Astonishingly
detailed
compendium of material on
heritage, archives, history, relics, and artifacts.
See especially
chapter 5 ‘How we know the past’.
David Manier, 'Is Memory in the Brain? Remembering as social behavior',
Mind, Culture, & Activity 11 (4),
251-266
Doron Mendels
(ed), On Memory: an
interdisciplinary approach (Peter Lang, 2007),
David Middleton
and Derek Edwards (eds), Collective Remembering (Sage,
1990)
* David Middleton and Steven D. Brown, The
Social Psychology of Experience: studies in remembering and forgetting (Sage,
2005)
* Barbara Misztal, Theories
of Social Remembering (Open University Press, 2003)
* Jeffrey K. Olick and Joyce
Robbins (1998). 'Social Memory Studies: from "collective memory"
to the historical sociology of
mnemonic practices', Annual Review of Sociology
24, 105-140.
* Jeffrey K. Olick, 'Collective Memory: the two cultures', Sociological Theory 17 (1999),
333-348
* Ross Poole, 'Memory, History, and the Claims of the Past', Memory Studies 1 (2), 2008
Robert Prus, 'Human Memory, Social Process, and the Pragmatist
Metamorphosis', J of Contemporary
Ethnography 36 (4), 2007, 378-437
Paul Ricoeur, Memory, History, Forgetting. Chicago
U.P., 2004.
* Michael Schudson, ‘Dynamics
of Distortion in Collective Memory’, in D.L. Schacter (ed),
Memory
Distortion (Harvard UP, 1995)
Daniel Wegner, 'Transactive
Memory: a contemporary analysis of the group mind', in B Mullen
& G Goethals (eds),
Theories of Group
Behavior (NY: Springer-Verlag, 1986), 185-208.
Harald Welzer & Hans Markowitsch, 'Towards a bio-psycho-social
model of autobiographical memory', Memory
13 (1), 2005, 63-78
James Wertsch, Voices
of collective
remembering . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002
Rob Wilson, 'Collective memory, group minds, and the extended mind
thesis', Cognitive Processes 6 (2005),
227-236
Alison Winter, 'The making of "truth serum"', Bulletin of the History of Medicine 79 (2005),
500-533
* Jay Winter and Emmanuel Sivan,
‘Setting the Framework’, in Winter & Sivan (eds), War and
Remembrance in the Twentieth Century
(Cambridge UP, 2000), 6-39
Barbie Zelizer, ‘Reading the
Past against the Grain: the shape of memory studies’, Critical
Studies in Mass
Communication 12 (1995), 204-239.
Eviatar Zerubavel, Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape
of the Past. Chicago U.P., 2003. [perhaps the discussion in
'Social
Memories', chapter 6 of Zerubavel, Social
Mindscapes: an invitation to cognitive sociology (Harvard
UP, 1997), is more focussed]
.
Centre for the
Study of Location, Memory and Visuality in Manchester
Cultural Memory in
France: margins and centers
Bibliography
on Memory Politics
Lucia Volk, The
Anthropology of Social Memory (syllabus, 2004)
See also the increasing amount of cross-cultural work in the Cognitive
Psychology of Memory and the Developmental
Psychology of Memory.
See below on The Social
Individual for some examples.
2. General Collections and
Anthologies
Jonathan Boyarin (ed), Remapping
Memory: the politics of time space (Minnesota UP, 1994)
Thomas Butler (ed.), Memory:
history, culture, and the mind (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989).
Rebecca Comay (ed), Lost in
the Archives (Alphabet City Media, 2002) [vast and
thrilling]
Patricia Fara &
Karalyn
Patterson (eds), Memory (Cambridge UP, 1998):
especially papers
by
Sennett
and Hall (sociology), and Goody (anthropology)
* Adrian Forty &
Suzanne Kuchler (eds), The Art of Forgetting (Oxford,
Berg, 1999). See especially
Forty's introduction, pp.1-18.
J. Gillis (ed), Commemorations (Princeton U.P., 1994)
* D. Middleton & D.
Edwards
(eds.), Collective Remembering (London: Sage, 1990). See
especially
the editors’ introduction and contribution; and papers by Shotter on
the
social
construction
of remembering, and Bakhurst on social memory in Soviet thought.
Susannah Radstone (ed), Memory
and Methodology (Oxford: Berg, 2000).
Susannah Radstone and Katharine Hodgson (eds), Regimes
of Memory (Routledge, 2003)
3. Anthropology and Memory
Karen Armstrong, 'Ambiguity and Remembrance: individual and
collective memory in Finland',
American
Ethnologist 27 (3), 2000, 591-608
F.C. Bartlett,
Remembering (Cambridge, 1932).
Deborah Battaglia, ‘At
Play
in the Fields (and Borders) of the Imaginary: Melanesian
transformations
of forgetting’, Cultural Anthropology 8 (1993), 430-442
Kevin Birth (ed), special issue of Ethos
34 (2), 2006 on The Immanent Past - key papers by Birth,
Jennifer Cole, Murakami & Middleton etc
Maurice Bloch, 'Internal
and
External Memory: different ways of being in history', in P. Antze &
M.
Lambek
(eds), Tense Past: cultural essays in trauma and memory
(London: Routledge,
1996),
215-233; and see the other essays in Bloch, How We Think They Think (Westview
Press, 1998)
Pierre Bourdieu, Outline
of the Theory of Practice (Cambridge UP, 1977), chapter on
'habitus'.
Janet Carsten, 'The Politics of Forgetting: migration, kinship and
memory on the periphery of the Southeast Asian state',
J Roy Anthrop
Inst N.S. 1 (1995), 317-335
Jennifer
Cole, 'Memory and Modernity', in C Casey & RB Edgerton (eds), A Companion to Psychological Anthropology
(Blackwell, 2005), 103-120
Jennifer Cole, 'Malagasy and Western conceptions of memory', Ethos 34 (2), 2006, 211-243
* Paul
Connerton, How
Societies
Remember (Cambridge UP, 1989). Chapters on Social Memory,
Commemorative
Ceremonies, and Bodily Practices.
Wendy James, The Ceremonial Animal (OUP,
2004), ch.5 'Ritual, Memory, & Religion'
Arthur Kleinman, Joan Kleinman, 'How bodies remember: social memory and
bodily experience of criticism, resistance,
& delegitimation following China's Cultural
Revolution', New Literary History 25
(3), 1994, 707-723
Susanne
Kuchler and Walter
Melion (eds), Images of Memory: on remembering and
representation (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991).
Excellent long theoretical
introduction,
and papers on memory in the production of dance, and case studies of
memories
in Madagascar, Mexico, and China
Michael Lambek, 'The Past
Imperfect: remembering as moral practice', in P. Antze & M. Lambek
(eds), Tense
Past: cultural essays in trauma and memory (Routledge, 1996),
235-256
Charlotte Linde,
‘Explanatory
Systems in Oral Life Stories’, in D. Holland and N. Quinn (eds),
(Cambridge
UP, 1987), 343-366
Michael Rowlands, 'The Role of Memory in the Transmission of Culture', World Archaeology 25 (1993),
141-151.
Andrea
Smith, Heteroglossia,
‘common sense’, and social memory, American Ethnologist 31 (2), 2004,
251-269
Andrew Strathern, 'Habit
or
Habitus? Theories of memory, the body, and change', in his Body
Thoughts
(Michigan UP, 1996), 25-39
David E Sutton, Remembrance of Repasts (Oxford:
Berg, 2001)
Elizabeth Tonkin, Narrating
our Pasts: the social construction of oral history (Cambridge,
1991).
Based
on fieldwork in Africa: concluding chapters on memory, & truth
&
identity.
Daniel A. Wagner, 'Memories of Morocco: the influence of age,
schooling, and environment on memory',
Cognitive
Psychology 10 (1978), 1-28
4. Sociology and Memory
* Maurice Halbwachs
(1925/1992).
'The Social Frameworks of Memory', in Halbwachs, On
Collective
Memory,
L.A. Coser (ed.) (Chicago U.P.). Unfortunately
this
edition omits many
important
early parts of the work on intersections between
society &
individual (the first 4 chapters, which cover 145 pages in the 2nd
French edition of 1952, are condensed into 13 pages in this
translation!).
* Maurice Halbwachs
(1950/1980). The Collective Memory. New
York: Harper Colophon.
Introduction by Mary Douglas, pp.1-21.
[Thanks to Glenn Bowman and Monte Pemberton for
help with Halbwachs references. There are also discussions of
Halbwachs in many general works on social/
collective memory, such as those listed in #1 above.]
Annette
Becker. Maurice Halbwachs. Un intellectuel en
guerres mondiales 1914-1945.
Paris:
Agnes Vienot, 2003.
Annette Becker, 'Memory
gaps: Maurice Halbwachs, memory and the Great War', Journal
of European Studies 35 (2005), 102-113
John
E.
Craig, 'Sociology and Related Disciplines between the Wars: Maurice
Halbwachs andthe imperialism of the Durkheimians',
in P. Besnard
& L.A. Coser (eds), The
Sociological Domain (Cambridge UP, 1983), 263-289 [background
on milieu, good bibliography]
Patrick Hutton, 'Sigmund Freud and Maurice Halbwachs: the problem of
memory in historical psychology',
The
History Teacher 27 (1994),
145-158
Laurent Mucchielli, ‘La
mémoire collective
selon Maurice Halbwachs’,
or a summary
in English
Paul Sabourin, Perspective
sur la mémoire sociale de Maurice Halbwachs (1997)
Gerome
Truc, lecture
on 1997 edition of Halbwachs 1950 (2002)
Erinnerung
und Gesellschaft/Mémoire et Société. Kolloquium zu
Werk und Wirkung von Maurice Halbwachs, Gottingen 2003
Mary Douglas, How Institutions Think (Syracuse
UP, 1986), especially chapters 6-7
Paolo Jedlowski, 'Memory and Sociology: themes & issues', Time & Society 10 (2001), 29-43
* David Middleton and Steven D. Brown, The
Social Psychology of Experience: studies in remembering and forgetting (Sage,
2005)
* Barbara Misztal,
Theories
of Social Remembering (Open University Press, 2003)
Kyoko Murakami, 'Orientation to the setting: discursively accomplised
intersubjectivity', Culture &
Psychology 9 (3), 2003, 233-248
Kyoko Murakami & David Middleton, 'Grave Matters; networks and
summation in remembering and reconciliation', Ethos 34 (2), 2006, 273-296
* Jeffrey K. Olick and Joyce
Robbins (1998). 'Social Memory Studies: from "collective memory"
to the historical sociology of
mnemonic practices', Annual Review of Sociology
24, 105-140.
* Jeffrey K. Olick, 'Collective Memory: the two cultures', Sociological Theory 17 (1999),
333-348
Barry
Schwartz, 'The Social Context of Commemoration: a study in
collective memory', Social Forces 61
(1982),
374-402.
Barry Schwartz, 'Memory as a Cultural System: Abraham Lincoln in World
War II',
American
Sociological Review 61 (1996), 908-927
Robert Belli & Howard Schuman, 'The Complexity of Ignorance', Qualitative Sociology 19 (3), 1996,
423-430
T Zhang & B Schwartz, 'Confucius and the Cultural Revolution: a
case study in collective memory',
Int J of Politics, Culture, & Society 11 (2), 1997,
189-212
Barry Schwartz, 'Memory and the Practices of Commitment', in B Glassner
& R Hertz (eds),
Qualitative
Sociology as Everyday Life (Sage, 1999), 135-146
Barry Schwartz and Howard Schuman,
'History, Commemoration, and Belief: Abraham Lincoln in American
Memory',
American Sociological Review 70 (2), 2005,
183-203
Howard
Schuman
& Willard L. Rogers, 'Cohorts, Chronology, and Collective
Memories',
Public Opinion
Quarterly 68 (2004), 217-254
5. History and Memory
T.G. Ashplant et al (eds),
The
Politics of War Memory and Commemoration (Routledge,
2000)
Jan Assmann, Moses the
Egyptian: the memory of Egypt in Western monotheism (Harvard
UP,
1997):
especially chapter 1 on ‘mnemohistory’: and see the review by Richard
Bernstein
in Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 21 (1999), 233-253
Marie-Noelle Bourguet,
Lucette
Valensi, Nathan Wachtel (eds), Between Memory and History
(Harwood
Academic Publishers, 1990). Papers on workers’ memory, Jewish memory,
memory
in
ethnic minorities
* Peter Burke, ‘History as
Social Memory’, in Butler (ed.), Memory: history, culture, and
the
mind
(Oxford: Blackwell, 1989), 97-113
Symposium in American Historical Review (1997):
Alon Confino, 'Collective Memory and Cultural History: problems of
method', 1386-1403, and
Susan Crane, 'Writing the Individual Back into Collective Memory',
1372-85
Brian Conway, 'Active remembering, selective forgetting, and collective
identity: the case of
Bloody Sunday', Identity
3 (4), 2003
David Cressy, 'National Memory
in Early Modern England', in J.R. Gillis (ed.), Commemorations
(Princeton
U.P., 1994)
Kate Darian-Smith and
Paula
Hamilton (eds), Memory and History in Twentieth-Century
Australia
(Oxford UP, 1994), especially * Hamilton, 'The Knife Edge:
debates
about
memory
and
history'
Karl Figlio, ‘Oral History
and the Unconscious’, History Workshop Journal 26 (1988),
120-132
Patrick Hutton, "The Art of
Memory Reconceived: from rhetoric to psychoanalysis", Journal of
the
History
of Ideas 48 (1987), 371-392
Gerdien Jonker, The
Topography of Remembrance: the dead, tradition, and collective
memory
in Mesopotamia (Leiden: Brill, 1995)
Michael Kammen, ‘Some
Patterns
and Meanings of Memory Distortion in American History’, in
D.L.
Schacter
(ed), Memory Distortion (Harvard UP, 1995)
Wolfgang Kansteiner,
'Finding Meaning in Memory: a methodological critique of collective
memory studies', History and Theory 41 (2002),
179-197
Michael G Kenny, 'A Place for Memory: the interface between individual
and collective history', Comparative
Studies
in Society and History 41 (1999), 420-437
Michael P Levine, 'Mediated Memories: the politics of the past', Angelaki 11 (2), 2006, 117-136
Matt K
Matsuda, The
Memory
of the Modern (Oxford UP, 1996) [review
by Patrick Hutton, History
and Theory 36 (1997), 378-391]
Pierre Nora, ‘Between
Memory
and History: Les Lieux de Memoire’, Representations 26 (1989),
or in
Realms of Memory (Columbia
U.P.), pp.1-20.
Luisa
Passerini, Fascism
in Popular Memory (Cambridge UP, 1987)
John Stephens, 'Memory, Commemoration, and the Meaning of a Suburban
War Memorial',
Journal of
Material Culture 12 (3), 2007, 241-261
Richard
Terdiman, Present
Past: modernity and the memory crisis (Cornell U.P., 1993)
Monica
Wehner, 'Typologies of
Memory and Forgetting among the Expatriates of Rabaul',
Journal of Pacific History 37 (2002)
Jay Winter, The
Generation of Memory: Reflections on the Memory Boom in Contemporary
Historical Studies
GHI
Bulletin
27 (2000).
History and Memory
journal
6. Material Memories, External
Memory,
Architecture and Memory, Place Memory
A Appadurai (ed), The
Social Life of Things (Cambridge UP, 1986), especially
Appadurai’s
introduction
on commodities & value, and Kopytoff on the cultural biography of
things
Ed Casey, Remembering:
a phenomenological study (Indiana UP, 1987), chapters 9-10 on
place
memory
and commemoration
Ed Casey, 'Public Memory in Place and Time', in K Phillips (ed), Framing Public Memory (Alabama UP,
2004)
M De Grazia et al (eds), Subject
and Object in Renaissance Culture (Cambridge UP, 1996)
* Merlin Donald, Origins
of the Modern Mind (Harvard U.P., 1991), especially pp.309ff
Adrian Forty and Susanne
Kuchler
(eds), The Art of Forgetting (Oxford: Berg, 1999),
especially
*
Forty’s
introduction, and Kuchler on ‘The Place of Memory’
Adrian
Forty, Words and Buildings (Thames
and Hudson, 2000), pp.206-219
Stephen
Greenblatt,
‘Memory
and Monumentality’, The Threepenny Review 64 (winter 1996)
Stephen Greenblatt,
‘Expectations
and Estrangement’, The Threepenny Review 67 (fall 1996)
Elizabeth Hallam and Jenny
Hockey, Death, Memory, and Material
Culture (Oxford: Berg, 2001)
Norman Klein, The History
of Forgetting: Los Angeles & the erasure of memory (Verso,
1997)
Rudy Koshar, From Monuments to Traces: artifacts of
German memory, 1870-1990 (California UP, 2000)
Marius Kwint et al (eds), Material
Memories (Berg, 1999)
Michael Leyton, Group
Theory and Architecture
David Mather, 'Extended
Memory: early calculating engines and historical computer simulations',
Leonardo 39 (3), 2006,
236-243
Daniel Miller (ed), Home Possessions
(Oxford: Berg,
2001)
Neville & Villeneuve (eds), Waste-Site
Stories: the recycling of memory (2002)
* Alan Radley, ‘Artefacts,
Memory, and a Sense of the Past’, in Middleton & Edwards (eds.),
Collective
Remembering (London: Sage, 1990), 46-59
Colin Renfrew & C
Scarre
(eds), Cognition and Material Culture (1998)
Peter Stallybrass & Ann Rosalind Jones, Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of
Memory (Cambridge UP, 2000)
Lisa Taylor, 'Collections of Memories', Architectural Digest 38 (1981),
36-42
Daniel Tiffany, Toy
Medium:
materialism and modern lyric (California U.P., 2000)
Research on Place and
Space
by Bruce Janz
7. Archives, Museums,
Organizations,
Memory
Karen Baker & Geof
Bowker, 'Information Ecology: open system environment for data,
memories, and
knowing', J of
Intelligent Information Systems (2007)
Geoffrey Bowker,
‘Lest We
Remember: organizational forgetting and the production of knowledge'
Geoffrey
Bowker, Memory Practices in the
Sciences, forthcoming 2006
Rebecca Comay (ed), Lost in the Archives (Alphabet
City Media, 2002)
Barbara L Craig, 'Selected
Themes in the Literature on Memory and their Pertinence to Archives',
American Archivist 65 (2002)
Susan Crane (ed), Museums and Memory
(Stanford UP, 2000)
Jacques Derrida, Archive
Fever (Chicago UP, 1996)
Steven Dubin, Displays of Power: memory and amnesia in
the American museum (NYUP, 1999)
Kenneth Foote, ‘To Remember
and Forget: Archives, Memory, & Culture’, American Archivist 53
(1990),
378-392
Chris Healy, 'Histories
and
Collecting: museums, objects, & memory', in K. Darian-Smith and P.
Hamilton,
Memory & History in Twentieth-Century Australia (Oxford
UP, 1994)
Gaynor Kavanagh, Dream Spaces: memory and the museum (Leicester
UP, 2000)
David
Lowenthal, The Past
is a Foreign Country (Cambridge UP, 1985). Astonishingly
detailed
compendium of material on
heritage, archives, history, relics, and artifacts.
See especially
chapter 5 ‘How we know the past’.
Laura
Millar, 'Evidence,
Memory, and Knowledge: the process of archival reasoning and the
extension of social thought' (2004)
Irving Velody, ‘The Archive
and the Human Sciences’, History of the Human Sciences 11 (1998),
1-16
(introduction
to two special issues on archives and memory which include a number of
useful
papers
on history, museums, archives, and institutions in relation to memory)
8. Family Memory
Jennifer Bohanek et al,
'Family Narrative Interaction and Children's Sense of Self', Family Process 45 (1), 2006, 39-54
William Hirst and David
Manier, 'Remembering as Communication: a family recounts its past', in
D. Rubin ed, Remembering
our Past (Cambridge UP, 1996), 271-290
William Hirst, David Manier, and Ioana Apetroaia, 'The Social
Construction of the Remembered Self:
family recounting', in J Snodgrass and R Thompson
(eds), The Self Across Psychology (NYAS,
1997)
Martha Langford, Suspended Conversations: The
Afterlife of Memory
in Photographic Albums
(McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001)
Anne Muxel, ‘Family
Memory, a Sociology of Intimacy’
Rory Remer et al, 'Family Members' Agreement on Memories of Shared
Experiences', Psychological Reports
82 (1998), 1195-1201
9. Holocaust & WWII Memory
Peter Novick, The Holocaust and Collective Memory: the
American experience (Bloomsbury, 1999)
Michael Perlman, Imaginal
Memory and the Place of Hiroshima (SUNY Press, 1988)
Tzvetan Todorov, ‘The
Abuses
of Memory’, Common Knowledge 5 (spring 1996), 6-26
Pierre Vidal-Naquet,
‘Memory
and History’, Common Knowledge 5 (fall 1996), 14-20
Harald Welzer, Grandpa Wasn't a
Nazi: the Holocaust in German family rememberance (American
Jewish Committee, 2005)
James Young, The
Texture
of Memory: Holocaust, memorials, & meaning (Yale UP, 1993)
10. Media Theory, Cyberculture,
Information,
Photography, Cinema, Memory
Erik Davis, ‘Techgnosis,
Magic,
Memory, and the Angels of Information’, in M. Dery (ed),
Flame
Wars (Duke UP, 1994), 29-60
Mary-Ann Doane,
‘Temporality,
Storage, Legibility: Freud, Marey, and the cinema’, Critical Inquiry
22 (1996),
313-343
Douwe Draaisma, Metaphors
of Memory (Cambridge UP, 2000)
Harvey Greenberg &
Krin
Gabbard, ‘Reel
Recollection: notes on the cinematic depiction of memory', PsyArt
Catherine Keenan, 'On the
relationship between personal photographs and individual memory',
History of Photography 22 (1998), 60-64
Annette Kuhn, Family
Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination. 2nd edition, London:
Verso, 2002
Annette Kuhn,An Everyday Magic: Cinema and
Cultural Memory. London: I.B. Tauris, 2002.
Alison
Landsberg, ‘Prosthetic
Memory: Total Recall and Blade Runner’, in M
Featherstone
& R
Burrows
(eds), Cyberspace/ Cyberbodies/ Cyberpunk (Sage, 1995),
175-189
Martin Lefebvre, 'On
Memory & Imagination in Cinema', New Literary History 30
(1999) 479-498
Chris Locke, ‘Digital
Memory
and the Problem of Forgetting’, in Susannah Radstone (ed),
Memory
and Methodology (Oxford: Berg, 2000), 25-36
James Nyce & Paul
Kahn, From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and
the mind's machine
Academic Press, 1991. Includes Bush's
'As We May Think' and heaps more.
Katherine Rowe, 'Remember
Me: technologies of memory in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet' (2002)
Michel Serres, Angels:
a modern myth (Paris: Flammarion, 1993)
Bernard Stiegler, 'The
Global Mnemotechnical System', Culture
Machine 4 (2004)
Marita Sturken, Tangled
Memories: the Vietnam War, the AIDS epidemic, and the politics
of
remembering (California UP, 1997)
Marita Sturken, 'The Image as Memorial: personal photographs in
cultural memory', in M. Hirsch (ed.),
The Familial Gaze
(Dartmouth College, 1999), 178-195
Darren
Tofts & M.
McKeich,
Memory Trade: the prehistory of cyberculture (Interface,
1997)
Jose van Dijck, 'Mediated Memories: personal cultural memory as object
of cultural analysis',
Continuum:
journal of media & cultural studies 18 (2004), 261-277
Alison Winter, 'Screening Selves:
Sciences of Memory and Identity on Film, 1930-1960', History of
Psychology 7 (2004), 367-401
Jay Winter, 'Film
and the
Matrix of Memory', American
Historical Review 107 (2001), 857-864
Barbie Zelizer, ‘Reading the
Past against the Grain: the shape of memory studies’, Critical
Studies
in
Mass
Communication 12 (1995), 204-239.
Technophonia:
Essays in Sound II (1995)
Andrea Lunsford's Stanford class on Memory
and Media
Richard Candida Smith (ed), Art and the Performance of Memory (Routledge,
2002)
Media,
Materiality, Memory: special issue of Configurations (2002)
Memento
and the original
short story
11. Social/ Ecological
Perspectives
on Individual Memory
C
Adams et al, 'Social context effects on story recall in older and
younger women: does the listener make a
difference?', J
of Gerontology: psychological sciences 57B (1), 2002, P28-P40
Craig
Barclay, ‘Autobiographical
Remembering: narrative constraints on objectified selves’, in D.
Rubin (ed),
Remembering our Past (Cambridge UP, 1996)
Frederic
C. Bartlett, Remembering (Cambridge UP, 1932); with
Akiko Saito (ed), Bartlett,
Culture,
and Cognition (Psychology Press, 2000), especially papers by
Rosa
and by Mary
Douglas
on psychology and anthropology, and by Brewer on the concept of schema
Jens Brockmeier,
'Remembering and Forgetting: narrative as cultural memory', Culture and
Psychology 8 (2002), 15-43
Sue Campbell, Relational Remembering: rethinking the
memory wars (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003)
Marion
Joan Francoz, ‘Habit
as Memory Incarnate’, College English 62 (1999), 11-29
Mark Freeman, Rewriting
the Self: history, memory, narrative (Routledge, 1993)
Clifford Geertz, 'Culture,
Mind, Brain/ Brain, Mind, Culture', in Available Light (Princeton
U.P., 1999)
Yoshihisa Kashima, 'Recovering Bartlett's Social Psychology of
Cognitive Dynamics', European Journal
of Social
Psychology, 30 (2000), 383-403.
Michael G Kenny, 'A Place for Memory: the interface between
individual and collective history', Comparative
Studies
in Society and History 41 (1999), 420-437
Michael
Leyton, Symmetry,
Causality, Mind (MIT Press, 1992)
David Manier,
'Is Memory in the Brain? Remembering as social behavior', Mind, Culture, & Activity 11 (4), 251-266<>
David Middleton and Steven D.
Brown, The Social Psychology of Experience:
studies in remembering and forgetting
(Sage, 2005)
Ulric Neisser (ed), Memory
Observed: remembering in natural contexts (Oxford, 1982, 2nd
edition eds Neisser &
Ira Hyman, Worth Publishers 1999)
Katherine Nelson, 'Self
and social functions: individual autobiographical memory and collective
narrative', Memory 11 (2003), 125-136
Monisha Pasupathi, 'The Social Construction of the Personal Past and
its Implications for Adult Development',
Psychological Bulletin 127 (5), 2001, 651-672
Monisha Pasupathi & Ben Rich, 'Inattentive listening undermines
self-verification in personal storytelling', J of Personality 73 (4), 2005,
1051-
Monisha Pasupathi et al, 'Reflecting
on Life: remembering as a major
process in adult development', J of
Lang and Social Psych 25 (2006), 244-263
B.M.
Ross,
Remembering
the Personal Past (Oxford, 1991)
J.
Skowronski & WR Walter, 'How describing
autobiographical memories can affect
autobiographical memories', Social
Cognition 22 (5), 2004, 555-590
Qi Wang, 'Culture Effects on
Adults' Earliest Childhood Recollections and Self-Description:
implications for the relation
between memory
and the self', Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology 81 (2001), 220-233.
Harald Welzer & Hans Markowitsch, 'Towards a
bio-psycho-social model of autobiographical memory', Memory 13 (1), 2005, 63-78
James Wertsch, Voices
of Collective Remembering . New York: Cambridge University Press,
2002
Rob Wilson, 'Collective memory, group minds, and the extended mind
thesis', Cognitive Processes 6 (2005),
227-236
12.
Collaborative Recall (& Collaborative Cognition) and Transactive
Memory
a) Collaborative
Recall, Collaborative Cognition, Social Contagion (in
chronological order)
N. Clark, G. Stephenson, B. Kniveton, 'Social remembering: quantitative
aspects of individual and collaborative
remembering by police officers and students', British Journal of Psychology 81 (1990),
73-94
O Gould & R Dixon, 'How we spent our vacation: collaborative
storytelling by young and old adults', Psychology
and Aging 8 (1), 1993, 10-17
B Basden, D Basden, S Bryner, R Thomas, 'A Comparison of Individual and
Group Remembering: does
collaboration disrupt retrieval strategies?', J of Exper Psych: learning, memory, &
cognition 23, 1176-1189
VB Hinsz, RS Tindale, DA Vollrath, 'The emerging conception of groups
as information processors',
Psychological Bulletin 121 (1), 1997, 43-64
MS Weldon & KD Bellinger, 'Collective Memory: collaborative and
individual processes in remembering',
J of Exper Psych:
learning, memory, & cognition 23 (5), 1160-1175
R Dixon & O Gould, 'Younger and Older Adults Collaborating on
Recalling Everyday Stories',
Applied Developmental Science 2 (3), 1998,
160-171
B Basden, D Basden, S Henry, 'Costs and Benefits of Collaborative
Remembering', Applied Cognitive
Psychology
14 (2000), 497-507
S Clark et al, 'Group Collaboration in Recognition Memory', J of Exper Psych: learning, memory, &
cognition 26 (6), 2000, 1578-88
F Finlay, G Hitch, P Meudell, 'Mutual Inhibition in Collaborative
Recall: evidence for a retrieval-based account',
J of Exper Psych:
learning, memory, & cognition 26, 2000
MS Weldon, C Blair, PD Huebsch, 'Group Remembering: does social loafing
underlie collaborative inhibition?',
J of Exper Psych:
learning, memory, & cognition 26 (6), 2000, 1568-77
HL Roediger, ML Meade, ET Bergman, 'Social Contagion of Memory', Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 8 (2), 2001,
365-371
O Gould et al, 'Collaborative recall in married and unacquainted
dyads', Int J of Behavioral
Development 26 (1), 2002, 36-44
ML Meade & HL Roediger, 'Explorations in the Social Contagion of
Memory', Memory & Cognition 30
(7), 2002, 995-1009
M Pasupathi, S Lucas, A Coombs, 'Conversational functions of
autobiographical remembering: long-married couples talk about
conflicts and pleasant topics', Discourse Processes 34 (2), 163-192
F Gabbert, A Memon, K Allan, 'Memory Conformity: can eyewitnesses
influence each other's memories for an event?',
Applied Cognitive
Psychology 17 (2003), 533-543
M Reysen, 'The effects of social pressure on group recall', Memory & Cognition 31 (8), 2003,
1163-1168
M Ross et al, 'Going shopping and identifying landmarks: does
collaboration improve older people's memory?',
Applied Cognitive
Psychology 18 (2004), 683-696
NO Johansson et al, 'Compensating strategies in collaborative
remembering in very old couples', Scandinavian
J of Psych 46 (2005), 349-359
Alexandru Cuc et al, 'On the Formation of Collective Memories: the role
of a dominant narrator',
Monisha
Pasupathi et al, 'Talking
the Talk: collaborative remembering and self-perceived expertise', Discourse Processes 43 (1), 2007,
55-77
Lisa Gagnon & Roger Dixon, 'Remembering
and Retelling Stories in Individual and Collaborative Contexts',
Applied Cog Psych (2008)
b) Transactive Memory
(in chronological order)
Daniel Wegner, Toni Giuliano, Paula Hertel, 'Cognitive
Interdependence in Close Relationships', in W Ickes (ed),
Compatible and
Incompatible Relationships (NY: Springer-Verlag, 1985), 253-276.
Daniel Wegner, 'Transactive
Memory: a contemporary analysis of the group mind', in B Mullen
& G Goethals (eds),
Theories of Group
Behavior (NY: Springer-Verlag, 1986), 185-208.
Daniel Wegner, Ralph Erber, Paula Raymond, 'Transactive
Memory in Close Relationships',
Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology 61 (1991), 923-9
Richard Moreland, Linda
Argote,
& Ranjani Krishnan, ‘Socially Shared Cognition at Work:
transactive
memory and group performance’, in J. Nye & A. Brower (eds),
What’s
Social
about Social Cognition? (Sage, 1996), 57-84
Andrea B Hollingshead, 'Retrieval
Processes in Transactive Memory Systems', Journal of
Personality and
Social Psychology 74 (3), 1998, 659-671
Youngjin Yoo, 'Development of Transactive Memory Systems and Collective
Mind in Virtual Teams',
Int J of
Organizational Analysis 9 (2), 187-208
AB Hollingshead, SN Fraidin, 'Gender Stereotypes and Assumptions about
Expertise in Transactive Memory',
J of Experimental
Social Psychology 39 (2003), 355-363
Kyle Lewis, 'Measuring Transactive Memory Systems in the Field: scale
development and validation',
J of Applied
Psychology 88 (4), 2003, 587-604
Manuel London et al, 'Interpersonal Congruence, Transactive Memory, and
Feedback Processes: an
integrative model of group learning', Human Resource Development Review 4 (2), 2005,
114-135
Yohsuke Ohtsubo, 'Should information be redundantly distributed among
group members? Effective use of group
memory in collaborative problem solving', Applied Cognitive Psychology 19 (2005),
1219-1233
Edward Palazzolo, 'Organizing for information retrieval in transactive
memory systems', Communication
Research
32 (2005), 726-761
Devaki
Rau, 'The influence
of relationship conflict and trust on the transactive memory',
Small Group
Research 36 (6), 2005, 746-771
Ray Reagans et al, 'Individual experience and experience working
together: predicting learning rates from knowing
who knows what and knowing how to work together', Management Science 51 (6), 2005,
869-881
Johnny Garner, 'It's not what you know: a transactive memory analysis
of knowledge networks at NASA',
J Technical
Writing and Communication 36 (4), 2006, 329-351
Yuqing Ren et al, 'The Contingent Effects of Transactive Memory', Management Science 52 (5), 2006,
671-682
Jane Prichard & Melanie Ashleigh, 'The Effects of Team-Skills
Training on Transactive Memory and Performance',
Small Group
Research 38 (2007), 696-726
Y Connie Yuan et al, 'Access to Information in Connective and Communal
Transactive Memory Systems',
Communication
Research 34 (2007), 131-155
13. Organizational
Memory (in
chronological order)
[See also especially 12 above on transactive memory]
James Walsh & Gerardo Ungson, 'Organizational Memory', Academy of Management Review 16 (1), 1991,
57-91.
D Stewart & G Stasser, 'Expert Role Assignment and Information
Sampling During Collective Recall and Decision-Making',
J of Personality
& Social Psych 69 (4), 1995, 619-628
L Bannon & K Kuutti, 'Shifting perspectives on organizational
memory: from storage to active remembering',
Procs 29th Annual Hawaii Int Conf on System Sciences
(HICSS-29), 1996, 156-167
JM Corbett, Towards a sociological model of organisational memory, Procs 30th Annual Hawaii Int Conf on
System Sciences, 1997
MS Ackerman & C Halverson, Organizational Memory: processes,
boundary objects, and trajectories, Procs
32nd Annual Hawaii Int Conf
on System Sciences, 1999, expnnded version
in CSCW 13 (2), 2004, 155-189
F Olivera, 'Memory systems in organizations: an empirical investigation
of mechanisms for knowledge collection, storage, & access',
J of Management
Studies 37 (6), 2000, 811-832
C Pollitt, 'Institutional Amnesia: a paradox of the information age?', Prometheus 18 (1), 2000, 5-16
JR Austin, 'Transactive Memory in Organizational Groups: the effects of
content, consensus, specialization, & accuracy on
group performance', J of Applied Psychology 88 (5), 866-878
M Paoli & A Prencipe, 'Memory of the organisation and memories
within the organisation', J of
Management and Governance 7 (2003), 145-162
DP Brandon & AB Hollingshead, 'Transactive Memory Systems in
Organizations: matching tasks, expertise, and people',
Organization
Science 15 (6), 2004, 633-644
Kyle Lewis et al, 'Transactive Memory Systems, Learning, and Learning
Transfer', Organization Science 16
(6),
2005, 581-598
Regina Feldman & Steven Feldman, 'What Links the Chain: an essay on
organizational remembering as practice', Organization 13 (6), 2006, 861-887
Nicholas Scalzo, 'Memory Loss? Corporate knowledge and radical change',
J of Business Strategy 27 (4), 2006,
60-69
Nancy Cooke et al, 'Team Cognition in Experienced Command-and-Control
Teams', J of Experimental Psych:
applied 13 (3), 2007, 146-157
Steve Kozlowski, Daniel Ilgen, 'The Science of Team Success', Scientific American Mind 18 (3), 2007,
54-61
Kyle Lewis et al, 'Group cognition, membership change, and
performance', Organizational
Behavior and Human Development Processes 103
(2007), 159-178
14. Social Ontology and/ of Memory
FC Bartlett,
'Group Organization and Social Behavior', International Journal of Ethics 35 (4), 1925,
346-367
15. Memory
& Extended/ Distributed Cognition
Also
see resources on Dynamicist
cognitive science
*
Merlin Donald, Origins
of the Modern Mind (Harvard U.P., 1991), especially pp.309ff
John Gero, Constructive Memory in Design Thinking, in G Goldschmidt
& W Porter (eds), Design
Thinking Research Symposium, MIT, 1999, 29-35
Rob Wilson, Boundaries of the Mind (Cambridge
UP, 2004), chapters 8, 11-12
Rob Wilson, 'Collective memory, group minds, and the extended mind
thesis', Cognitive Processes 6 (2005),
227-236
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