Communication Memory Studies: Foundations and Fields

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Christian Pentzold
• Subject Area: Communication Sciences
• Term: from 2017 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 389196641

The aim of the scientific network is to explore, systematize, and develop the nascent field of communication memory studies. It elaborates its fundaments in different areas of the social sciences, maps its pivotal areas of inquiry, and explores analytical perspectives. Following the distribution strategy, the results will be published in a handbook and will be disseminated through a special issue and an international conference. Together they address different disciplinary academic publics and stakeholder groups in public education, museums, and heritage organizations. The network fosters a translocal, issue-driven cooperation in order to survey and compare the disparate theoretical and empirical strands of research on cultural memory and social remembering reflected in communication research and media analysis. These are critically reviewed, conjointly documented, and further examined as constitutive elements of the emerging area of communication memory studies. Due to the variety of paradigms and approaches it is necessary to work across disciplines and to take an international perspective.

• DFG Programme: Scientific Networks
• Co-Investigator: Professorin Dr. Christine Lohmeier