RESEARCH PROFILE

Andrew Hoskins attained his BA (Hons.), MA, and PhD in Sociology at Lancaster. Before his appointment at Warwick he was Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Wales, Swansea. His research focuses on the theoretical and empirical investigation of today's 'new media ecology' and the nature of and the challenges for individual, social, and cultural memory in this environment. His Televising War: From Vietnam to Iraq (Continuum, 2004) develops his concept of 'new memory' in relation to warfare, notably how the dynamic of memory in recent times is increasingly manufactured, manipulated, and mediatized. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the international and interdisciplinary SAGE journal of Memory Studies (mss.sagepub.com) and Director of the Warwick Centre for Memory Studies (go.warwick.ac.uk/memorystudies). He is currently Principal Investigator of a three year AHRC funded project: 'Mediating and Commemorating the 2005 London Bombings' and also Principal Investigator of a two-year project: 'Legitimising the Discourses of Radicalisation: Political Violence in the New Media Ecology,' which is funded by the ESRC New Security Challenges Programme. He is also founding co-editor of the new international and interdisciplinary SAGE journal of Media, War & Conflict (mwc.sagepub.com). His latest book is co-edited (with Joanne Garde-Hansen and Anna Reading) Save As...Digital Memories (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). His recently completed work provides a new framework for the analysis of the dynamic relationship between contemporary media and warfare: War and Media: The Emergence of Diffused War (with Ben O'Loughlin) is forthcoming with Polity Press (2010).

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Conflicts of Memory: Mediating and Commemorating the 2005 London Bombings., AHRC., People routinely remember and use the past by interwining personal narratives with public events. People remember where they were when dramatic events occurred. These may be highly mediated memories, in film, on television, and in print, but they are still part of our very real personal and collective memories. Personal biography intersects with history in just this implicit way, locating the unfolding details of everyday life in terms of the events of the larger society ? history in the making. This project traces the linkages between the media and our everyday remembering of past events through comparing the instant and archival capacities of television with people?s own retellings of events. Very recently, there has been a massive increase in the availability and use of mobile phones equipped with cameras and videos in the UK which has led to images and film captured by bystanders being used to help create and shape 'breaking news' stories. Our research will investigate the impact of these 'personal' media and 'individual' accounts on television news coverage of traumatic events (the July 2005 London bombings) and also on how these events are later commemorated on television, and how they later come to be remembered by the public. Rather than argue that television wipes out memory and feeling ? however much it may reduce complex events to soundbites and talking heads ? we suggest that television may also keep memories alive and dynamic. , Project Start Date: 01/01/2008 Project End Date: 31/12/2010
  
  

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Hoskins, A., Garde-Hansen, J, Reading, A. (Editors), (2009) Save As... Digital Memories , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
• Hoskins, A, O'Loughlin, B, (2009) 'Pre-mediating Guilt: Radicalisation and Mediality in British News' Critical Studies on Terrorism
• Hoskins, A (2009) 'The Mediatization of Memory' in Save As... Digital Memories, Editors: Garde-Hansen, J, Hoskins, A and Reading, A, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
• Hoskins, A (2009) 'Digital Network Memory' in Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory, Editors: Erll, A and Rigney, A, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter
• Hoskins, A , O'Loughlin, B, (2009) 'The Internet as a Weapon of War? Radicalisation, Publics and Legitimacy' in Cyber Conflict and Global Politics, Editors: Karatzogianni, A, London: Routledge

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