This graduate-level course explores how collective memory is constructed, circulated, contested, and transformed through media. Drawing on foundational thinkers such as Maurice Halbwachs, Jan Assmann, and Pierre Nora, the course examines the relationship between memory, media institutions, representation, and power in contemporary societies. Students analyze how journalism, film, television, photography, digital platforms, and popular culture function as memory agents that shape national identity, trauma narratives, nostalgia, activism, and counter-memory. Particular attention is given to digital memory, algorithmic curation, transnational memory flows, and the politics of remembrance in mediated environments. Through theoretical readings, case studies, and research-based assignments, students develop advanced analytical skills to critically evaluate media as sites of cultural memory production and negotiation.
- Enseignant: Dilan Ciftci