Media

 You cannot understand the world around us without considering the information we consume, and what we remember.

I have spent years researching these crucial topics from a variety of angles. I am available for speaking engagements, media appearances, and events worldwide on topics such as:

Our transforming memories:

We increasingly rely on our digital archives to act as our surrogate memories. But how does that affect how we see each other and remember our pasts, and what happens if that collective memory is radicalised, weaponised or distorted?

The diffusion of media:

Our media is no longer centralised and top-down. It is now bottom-up, many-to-many, and peer-to-peer. How has that affected our ability to process events, and what do we need to do to adjust to this empowering but overwhelming paradigm shift?

Our broken past:

Our relationship with our pasts is “broken”, as we rely on a centralised archive rather than our own collective, shifting memories. How do we engage with our difficult pasts if they are always there, at the touch of a button? And how can we process and interpret our lives, without feeling the urge to erase?

The era of Digital War:

War has not escaped the radical changes of our digital present. We now experience conflict in a totally different way. Through citizen journalism on the ground, we experience events as they happen, from a variety of different viewpoints. And we can now access huge volumes of information and archives? But when we can see everything from every angle, how does that affect how we interpret events, and process trauma?

Upcoming events

 Recent talks, interviews and podcasts

‘The new grey of memory’: Andrew Hoskins in conversation with Huw Halstead. Memory Studies. 2021: 10.1177/17506980211010936

Andrea Luka Zimmerman in conversation with Andrew Hoskins about her fantastic film Erase and Forget, Side Cinema, Newcastle (Amber Films)

War in the Age of the Smartphone podcast (with Matthew Ford) The Krulak Center:

Keynote: ‘Forgetting Covid-19’, ‘Connecting in a Time of Covid’ Workshop, Science Museum/Dept. of Journalism, City University, London, 23 March 2022.

  • 22.03.22 Invited paper: ‘Narratives of the Digital Self in the Memory Feed’, Breaking Down the Silos Memory Workshop, Bad Homburg, Germany.

  • 17.02.22 Keynote: Digital Museum Conference, Norwegian Network for Democracy and Human Rights, Bergen, Norway (online).

  • 03.02.22 Invited Talk: Memory and Media, Interdisciplinary Fellowship Group (IFG) "Memory and Justice", Philipps-Universität Marburg (online).

  • 25.01.22 Invited Paper (with Matthew Ford) ‘On Accidental Archives and Shaping the Military Understanding of War’, Conflict Records Unit, King’s College London (online).

  • 17.11.21 Invited Paper (with Kristina Cimova) ‘Is Memory Finished’? The Future of Memory Conference, Museu da Pessoa, São Paulo (online).

Previously published books

  • Trump's Media War

    Co-edited with Catherine Hopper and William Merrin

  • Save as... Digital Memories

    Co-edited with Joanne Garde-Hansen and Anna Reading

  • Televising War

  • Risk and Hyperconnectivity

    Co-authored with John Tulloch

  • War and Media - The Emergence of Diffused War

    Co-authored with Ben O’Loughlin

  • Digital Memory Studies

    Digital Memory Studies