News in Public Memory: An International Study of Media Memories Across Generations

News in Public Memory brings together a team of international experts to investigate the media-transmitted history of the twentieth century as it exists in the memories and minds of people living in diverse cultures across the globe. This book compares media-related childhood memories across three generations in nine countries. Results reveal that events of the past century are not only historical « facts but have become substantial elements of a new global collective memory that has been integrated into generational identity worldwide. The global approach of this research encourages the idea that the world is an interconnected whole, but it also helps to advance a better understanding of the different perceptions of global and local news as they emerge from various cultural angles and geographical regions.

'Contents: Local profiles in cross-generational analysis: introduction / Ingrid Volkmer -- Australia / Christina Slade -- Austria / Theo Hug -- Germany / Gebhard Rusch and Ingrid Volkmer -- India / Keval J. Kumar -- Japan / Reiko Sekiguchi -- Mexico / Margarita Maass, Daniela Rivera, and Andres Hofman -- South Africa / Ruth Teer-Tomaselli -- USA / Matthew D. Payne, Jill Dianne Swenson, and Thomas W. Bohn -- Czech Republic / Jan Jirk -- Comparative analysis across generations and cultures perceptions and memories of the media context / Christina Slade -- Construction of memory / Keval J. Kumar, Theo Hug, and Gebhard Rusch -- Memory and markers: collective memory and newsworthiness / Ruth Teer-Tomaselli -- Conclusion: globalization, generational entelechies, and the global public space / Ingrid Volkmer.'