ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to reimagine memory from a media and communication studies perspective. Therefore we establish the role of media (technologies) as crucial for documenting, curating, distributing, and negotiating memory. With the emergence of digital media technologies more voices, also of previously marginalized groups, can contribute to social remembrance, allowing for polyphony of memory. In the chapter we explore new voices, new (digital) places and new authorities of memory and stress implications of digital transformations for the entanglements between individual and collective processes of remembering such as the connectivity between various social actors and cultural registers. The potential for polyphony of memory in digital media environments raises new awareness for questions of authority and legitimacy of memory. Hierarchy, authority, inclusions, and exclusions do not disappear through digital technologies, but are transformed and reappear in new shapes brining about differentiated challenges for memory studies as an area of inquiry.
