Members’ Recent Publications

Handling the hype: demystifying artificial intelligence for memory studies

Memory, Mind & Media, Cambridge University Press 2025, Vol. 4

Merrill, Samuel; Makhortykh, Mykola; Mandolessi, Silvana; et al.

Hybrid methodologies for studying social and cultural memory in the post-digital age

The remaking of memory in the age of the internet and social media, Oxford University Press 2025 : 285-302

Merrill, Samuel

"Next stop Anton-Wilhelm-Amo strasse": place names, de-commemoration and memory activism in Berlin

De-commemoration: removing statues and renaming places, New York: Berghahn Books 2024 : 210-220

Jethro, Duane; Merrill, Samuel

Remembering activism: means and ends

Memory Studies, Sage Publications 2024, Vol. 17, (5) : 997-1003

Merrill, Samuel; Rigney, Ann

Remembering like a state: surveillance databases, digital activist traces and the repressive potential of mediated prospective memory

Memory Studies, Sage Publications 2024, Vol. 17, (5) : 1177-1194

Merrill, Samuel

Remembering the building blocks of socialism: the material and mediatised (n)ostalgia of East German plastic construction toys

The Routledge handbook of archaeology and plastics, Routledge 2024 : 371-384

Merrill, Samuel

[Review] The state of (and in) memory activism research

Memory Studies, Sage Publications 2024, Vol. 17, (5) : 1235-1238

Merrill, Samuel

‘Splintering’ the memory-activism nexus: state and market forces in the vortex of civic memory

Dynamics, mediation, mobilization: doing memory studies with Ann Rigney, Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2024 : 361-368

Merrill, Samuel

Stochastic remembering and distributed mnemonic agency: recalling twentieth century activists with ChatGPT

Memory studies review, Brill Nijhoff 2024, Vol. 1, (2) : 209-230

Smit, Rik; Smits, Thomas; Merrill, Samuel

Artificial intelligence and social memory: towards the cyborgian remembrance of an advancing mnemo-technic

Handbook of critical studies of artificial intelligence, Edward Elgar Publishing 2023 : 173-186

Merrill, Samuel

Memory, iconicity and virality inaction: exploring protest photos online

The visual memory of protest, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2023 : 133-156

Merrill, Samuel

"Prochain arrêt: Anton-Wilhelm-Amo Strasse": toponymes, dé-commémoration et activisme mémorial à Berlin

Dé-commémoration: quand le monde déboulonne des statues et renomme des rues, Paris: Fayard 2023 : 250-259

Merrill, Samuel; Jethro, Duane

Far-right anniversary politics and social media: the alternative for Germany’s contestation of the East German past on twitter

Memory Studies, Sage Publications 2022, Vol. 15, (6) : 1360-1377

Richardson-Little, Ned; Merrill, Samuel; Arlaud, Leah

Affect and the Response to Terror: Commemoration and Communities of Sense

International Political Sociology, Oxford University Press 2021, Vol. 15, (1) : 22-40

Closs Stephens, Angharad; Coward, Martin; Merrill, Samuel; et al.

Buffing and buffering Blu: the societal performance of street art, heritage erasure and digital preservation in Berlin

International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS), Routledge 2021, Vol. 27, (6) : 601-616

Merrill, Samuel

Memes, brands and the politics of post-terror togetherness: following the Manchester bee after the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing

Information, Communication and Society, Taylor & Francis Group 2021, Vol. 24, (16) : 2403-2421

Merrill, Samuel; Lindgren, Simon

Following The Woman with the Handbag: Mnemonic Context Collapse and the Anti-fascist Activist Appropriation of an Iconic Historical Photograph

Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media: Mobilising Mediated Remembrance, Palgrave Macmillan 2020 : 111-139

Merrill, Samuel

Introduction: The Digital Memory Work Practices of Social Movements

Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media: Mobilising Mediated Remembrance, Palgrave Macmillan 2020 : 1-30

Merrill, Samuel; Keightley, Emily; Daphi, Priska

Preface

Social movements, cultural memory and digital media: mobilising mediated remembrance, Palgrave Macmillan 2020 : v-vii

Merrill, Samuel; Keightley, Emily; Daphi, Priska

Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media: Mobilising Mediated Remembrance

Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

Merrill, Samuel; Emily, Keightley; Priska, Daphi

Sweden then vs. Sweden now: The memetic normalisation of far-right nostalgia

First Monday, First Monday Editorial Group 2020, Vol. 25, (6)

Merrill, Samuel

The rhythms of social movement memories: the mobilization of Silvio Meier’s activist remembrance across platforms

Social Movement Studies, Routledge 2020, Vol. 19, (5-6) : 657-674

Merrill, Samuel; Lindgren, Simon

Togetherness after terror: The more or less digital commemorative public atmospheres of the Manchester Arena bombing's first anniversary

Environment & Planning. D, Society and Space, Sage Publications 2020, Vol. 38, (3) : 546-566

Merrill, Samuel; Sumartojo, Shanti; Stephens, Angharad Closs; et al.

Who Is the Volk? PEGIDA and the Contested Memory of 1989 on Social Media

Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media: Mobilising Mediated Remembrance, Palgrave Macmillan 2020 : 59-84

Richardson-Little, Ned; Merrill, Samuel

Latest update: 2026-02-24