Memory, Mind & Media Journal, an interdisciplinary journal that explores the impact of media & technology on human, social and cultural remembering have launched a new open access collection on Comics, Memory and Activism.
The collection is guest-edited by Vasiliki Belia, a PhD candidate at the Department of Literature and Art and the Centre for Gender and Diversity, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, at Maastricht University, and Clara Vlessing, Utrecht University/Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, an interdisciplinary scholar in the humanities and an affiliated researcher of the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON). Clara was winner of the Histoire sociale / Social History Best Article prize 2024.
So far there are six articles included in the collection, including “Truth claims and trace: The autographic witness in the algorithm” by graphic novelist, comics scholar and lecturer in Illustration Animation at Kingston University, Gareth Brookes; and “From struggle to strength: A visual essay on Rotterdam’s memory of hope”, by illustrator and urbanist Tânia Alexandra Cardoso, which poetically focuses on the city of Rotterdam and its motto, “From Struggle to Strength”, following Tânia’s personal artistic journey around the city, interviewing some of its residents.
More articles will be added to the collection in the coming months. They can all be read here
Launched in 2022, Memory, Mind & Media (MMM), owned, managed, and published by Cambridge University Press, explores the impact of media and technology on individual, social and cultural remembering and forgetting. This agenda-setting journal, edited by Andrew Hoskins of the University of Edinburgh, co-author of Radical War: Data, attention & control in the twenty-first century, and Amanda J. Barnier, a cognitive psychologist, Professor of Cognitive Science and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Performance and Development) at Macquarie University, Australia.
The journal fosters high-quality, interdisciplinary conversations combining cognitive, social and cultural approaches to the study of memory and forgetting in the digital era. The pervasiveness, complexity and immediacy of digital media, communication networks and archives are transforming what memory is and what memory does, changing the relationship between memory in the head and memory in the wild.
MMM offers a new home for a wide variety of scholars working on these questions, within and across disciplines, from history, philosophy, media studies, cultural studies, law, literature, anthropology, political science, sociology, neuroscience, psychology, cognitive and computational science and elsewhere.
The journal gives priority to submissions that are cross-disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary, experimental, agenda-setting and push the boundaries of existing knowledge and methods. The journal insists on jargon-free, plain English submissions to ensure a widely accessible forum for cutting edge work.
• Memory, Mind & Media Journal: Comics, Memory and Activism
• Find out more about Memory, Mind & Media (MMM)
• Read the 2022 Memory, Mind & Media announcement blog post
MMM is a high-quality, peer-reviewed journal, publishing online and Open Access. As a barrier-free Gold OA journal, a fee waiver system is in place for unfunded authors. You can submit your article using their online submission system here. General queries should go to memorycambridgeATgmail.com (Replace AT with @)
Thanks to Gareth Brookes for the info
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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