Streaming Media and Cultural Memory in a Postdigital Society

This book offers a relevant contribution to the studies of streaming media and transmediality with an original approach of cultural sustainability perfectly intertwined with cultural memory beyond borders.

List of contents

Introduction: The cultural (un)sustainability of streaming media in a postdigital society
1. Mrs. America and the learning potential of streaming media
2. Remembering and forgetting Chernobyl
3. The ethical controversies of The Crown
4. Between universal and South Korean cultural memory in Squid Game
5. Transmedia activism in The Handmaid's Tale
Final considerations

About the author

Renira Rampazzo Gambarato is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Jönköping University, Sweden.
Johannes Heuman is Associate Professor of History at Södertörn University, Sweden.

Summary

This book offers a relevant contribution to the studies of streaming media and transmediality with an original approach of cultural sustainability perfectly intertwined with cultural memory beyond borders.

Product details

• Authors: Renira Rampazzo Gambarato, Renira Rampazzo (Jonkoping University Gambarato, Johannes Heuman, Heuman Johannes
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032690834
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3269083-4
• No. of pages: 146
• Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; History, Cultural Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Anthropology, Press & journalism, The arts, Humanities, Communication Studies, News media and journalism, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General