Journal Articles

Natale, S, Biggio, F, Arora, P, Downey, J, Fassone, R, Grohmann, R, Guzman, A, Keightley, E, Ji, D, Obia, V, Przegalinska, A, Raman, U, Ricaurte, P, Villanueva-Mansilla, E (2025) Global AI Cultures, Communications of the ACM, 3722547, ISSN: 0001-0782. DOI: 10.1145/3722547.

Natale, S, Biggio, F, Guzman, AL, Ricaurte, P, Downey, J, Fassone, R, Keightley, E, Ji, D (2025) AI, agency, and power geometries, Media, Culture and Society, ISSN: 0163-4437. DOI: 10.1177/01634437251328207.

Nataraj, P and Keightley, E (2025) Remembering voices: Singing and critical cosmopolitan memory in the Bengali diaspora, European Journal of Cultural Studies, ISSN: 1367-5494. DOI: 10.1177/13675494251321257.

Natale, S, Li, EC-Y, Punathambekar, A, Keightley, E (2025) Rethinking keywords in media and cultural studies during and beyond COVID-19: Editorial, Media, Culture & Society, 47(2), pp.412-417, ISSN: 0163-4437. DOI: 10.1177/01634437241297869.

Hornabrook, J, Clini, C, Nataraj, P, Keightley, E (2024) Introduction – Partition and the South Asian diaspora: exploring (inherited) memories and creative practices of remembering, South Asian Diaspora, 16(2), pp.157-165, ISSN: 1943-8192. DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2024.2328467.

Clini, C, Hornabrook, J, Nataraj, P, Keightley, E (2023) Partition at 75: reflections on migrant memories in the British South Asian diaspora, South Asian Diaspora, 16(2), pp.167-185, ISSN: 1943-8192. DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2023.2245631.

Keightley, E, Li, EC-Y, Natale, S, Punathambekar, A (2023) Editorial: encounters with Western media theory, Media, Culture & Society, 45(2), pp.406-412, ISSN: 0163-4437. DOI: 10.1177/01634437221149821.

Keightley, E (2022) Rethinking technologies of remembering for a postcolonial world, Memory, Mind & Media, 1, e17, DOI: 10.1017/mem.2022.9.

Orphanides, R, Nyhagen, L, Keightley, E (2022) Constructions of self and the pursuit of ‘authenticity’ in women’s magazines: A study of British and Greek discourses, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 26(6), pp.822-839, ISSN: 1367-5494. DOI: 10.1177/13675494221136617.

Giese, J and Keightley, E (2022) Dancing through time: a methodological exploration of embodied memories, Memory Studies, 17(2), pp.444-457, ISSN: 1750-6980. DOI: 10.1177/17506980221126611.

Keightley, E, Mihelj, S, Punathambekar, A (2021) Media and time, Media, Culture and Society, 43(7), pp.1177-1179, ISSN: 0163-4437. DOI: 10.1177/01634437211031238.

Clini, C, Hornabrook, J, Keightley, E (2021) Televising the Partition of British India: Memory, identity and the privatisation of the past in 70th anniversary commemorative broadcasting, Media History, 28(4), pp.543-559, ISSN: 1368-8804. DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2021.1958672.

Clini, C, Hornabrook, J, Keightley, E (2021) Migration, arts and the negotiation of belonging: an analysis of creative practices within British Asian communities in London and Loughborough, AmeriQuests, 16(1), ISSN: 1553-4316.

Niemeyer, K and Keightley, E (2020) The commodification of time and memory: Online communities and the dynamics of commercially produced nostalgia, New Media and Society, 22(9), pp.1639-1662, ISSN: 1461-4448. DOI: 10.1177/1461444820914869.

Treré, E, Natale, S, Keightley, E, Punathambekar, A (2020) The limits and boundaries of digital disconnection [Editorial], Media, Culture and Society, 42(4), pp.605-609, ISSN: 0163-4437. DOI: 10.1177/0163443720922054.

Keightley, E and Downey, J (2017) The intermediate time of news consumption, Journalism, 19(1), pp.93-110, ISSN: 1464-8849. DOI: 10.1177/1464884916689155.

Keightley, E (2014) Special Section Editorial: Digital Media - Social Memory (vol 36, pg 745, 2014), MEDIA CULTURE & SOCIETY, 36(8), pp.1227-1227, ISSN: 0163-4437. DOI: 10.1177/0163443714556211.

Keightley, E and Pickering, M (2014) Technologies of memory: practices of remembering in analogue and digital photography, NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY, 16(4), pp.576-593, ISSN: 1461-4448. DOI: 10.1177/1461444814532062.

Keightley, E and Reading, A (2014) Mediated mobilities, Media Culture and Society, 36(3), pp.285-301, ISSN: 0163-4437. DOI: 10.1177/0163443713517731.

Keightley, E and Schlesinger, P (2014) Digital media – social memory: remembering in digitally networked times, Media, Culture and Society, 36(6), pp.745-747, ISSN: 0163-4437. DOI: 10.1177/0163443714532985.

Keightley, E and Punathambekar, A (2013) Crosscurrents, Media Culture and Society, 35(8), p.925, ISSN: 0163-4437. DOI: 10.1177/0163443713508701.

Pickering, M and Keightley, E (2013) Communities of memory and the problem of transmission, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 16(1), pp.115-131, ISSN: 1367-5494. DOI: 10.1177/1367549412457481.

Keightley, E (2013) From immediacy to intermediacy: The mediation of lived time, Time Society, 22(1), pp.55-75, ISSN: 0961-463X. DOI: 10.1177/0961463X11402045.

Keightley, E, Pickering, M, Allett, N (2012) The self-interview: a new method in social science research, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 15(6), pp.507-521, ISSN: 1364-5579. DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2011.632155.

Keightley, E and Punathambekar, A (2012) Tabloid journalism: The News of the World scandal and beyond, Media Culture and Society, 34(5), pp.623-624, ISSN: 0163-4437. DOI: 10.1177/0163443712442705.

Keightley, E (2011) From Dynasty to Songs of Praise: Television as Cultural Resource for Gendered Remembering, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 14(4), pp.395-410.

Keightley, E (2010) Remembering Research: Memory and Methodology in the Social Sciences, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 13(1), pp.55-70.

Pickering, MJ and Keightley, E (2009) Trauma, Discourse and Communicative Limits, Critical Discourse Studies, 6(4), pp.237-49, DOI: 10.1080/17405900903180970.

Keightley, E (2009) James Lull, Culture-on-Demand: Communication in a Crisis World, European Journal of Communication, 24(1), pp.103-107, ISSN: 0267-3231. DOI: 10.1177/0267323108098949.

Keightley, E (2008) Engaging with Memory, pp.175-192.

Keightley, E and Pickering, MJ (2007) The Past Has Two Paths: Mnemonics of Loss and Gain, Cahiers de recherche sociologique, 44, pp.83-96, ISSN: 0831-1048.

Keightley, E and Pickering, MJ (2007) Les deux voies du passe: le ressouvenir, entre progres et perte, Cahiers de Recherche Sociologique (With Michael Pickering), 44, pp.83-97.

Pickering, MJ and Keightley, E (2007) Echoes and Reverberations: Photography and Phonography as Historical Forms, Media History, 13(2/3), pp.273-288.

Keightley, E and Pickering, MJ (2006) For the Record: Popular Music and Photography as Technologies of Memory, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 9(2), pp.149-165.

Pickering, MJ and Keightley, E (2006) The Modalities of Nostalgia, Current Sociology, 54(6), pp.919-941.

Conferences

Keightley, E and Stanyer, J (2017) Researching Communications Between Memory and History. In Keightley, E (ed) International Communication Association, San Diego.

Keightley, E (Accepted for publication) Spatialising intermediate time. In International Communication Association, San Diego.

Keightley, E (Accepted for publication) Memory, Migration and the Digital-Analogue Shift. In International Communication Association, San Diego.

Keightley, E and Pickering, M (2016) Refocusing memory studies: the mnemonic imagination and remembering well. In International Association of Media and Communication Research, University of Leicester.

Keightley, E and Niemeyer, K (2016) Between Exploitation and Agency: Towards a Political Economy of Nostalgia. In European Communication Research and Education Association, Prague.

Keightley, E and Pfoser, A (2016) Heritage tourism and the dynamics of transnational mnemonic encounters. In European Communication Research and Education Association, Prague.

Keightley, E (2015) Comparing Experience: The Possibilities and Challenges for Comparative Mediatisation Research. In Mediatisation of Culture and Everyday Life, Stockholm.

Keightley, E (2015) The intermediate time of news consumption. In International Communication Association, Puerto Rico.

Keightley, E (2014) Research Methods in Memory Studies: Oral History, Interscalarity, Trauma. In Pickering, M (ed) Iconomy and Memory, University of Warwick, pp.0-0.

Keightley, E, Pickering, M, Bisht, P (2014) Interscalarity and memory studies methodology. In Making Sense of Memory and History. International Communication Association Pre-Conference sponsored by the ICA Communication History Division, Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI), Seattle, pp.0-0.

Keightley, E and Stanyer, J (2014) Digital life coaching: Life-style entrepreneurs and online networks of self-fulfilment’. In MECCSA Annual Conference, Bournemouth University, pp.0-0.

Keightley, E (2013) Communicating the memory of political crises: the failures of the trauma paradigm. In International Political Studies Association, Granada, pp.0-0.

Keightley, E (2013) Digital Media and Everyday Remembering. In CR Conference: Crises, ‘Creative Destruction’ and the Global Power and Communication Orders, Dublin City University, pp.0-0.

Keightley, E and Reading, A (2013) ‘Mobile Methods’. In IAMCR Conference: Crises, ‘Creative Destruction’ and the Global Power and Communication Orders, Dublin City University, pp.0-0.

Keightley, E (2013) Digital Remembering and Everyday Photographic Practices’. In MECCSA Annual Conference, University of Ulster, pp.0-0.

Keightley, E and Pickering, M (2012) Digital Remembering and Everyday Photographic Practices. In Data, Memory, Territory Conference, University of Western Sydney, pp.0-0.

Keightley, E (2012) Mediated Temporalities and the Politics of Intermediacy. In European Communication Research and Education Association, 08 Oct 2012, Istanbul, pp.0-0.

Keightley, E and Pickering, M (2012) Retrotyping and the Politics of Nostalgia. In Flashbacks: Nostalgic Media and Mediated Forms of Nostalgia, University of Geneva, pp.0-0.

Keightley, E, Allett, N, Pickering, M (2012) Mass Observation and Memory. In Mass Observation Anniversaries Conference, University of Sussex, pp.0-0.

Keightley, E (2012) ‘Televising Everyday Memory’. In Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association, University of Bedfordshire, pp.0-0.

Keightley, E, Pickering, MJ, Allett, NF (2011) Using Self Interviews in Memory Research. In British Sociological Association Annual Conference, LSE, tba.

Keightley, E and Pickering, MJ (2010) 'The Indefensible Rhetoric of Collective Trauma' Conflicts of Memory Sympsosium. In University of Nottingham, University of Nottingham, tba.

Keightley, E (2010) Time, Media, Modernity. In Time in Culture: Mediation and Representation, Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory, Tartu University, tba.

Keightley, E and Pickering, MJ (2010) Beyond the Rhetoric of Collective Trauma. Beyond the edge of Trauma. In Kingston University, Kingston University, tba.

Keightley, E (2009) From Dynasty to Songs of Praise: Television as Cultural Resource for Gendered Remembering. In Televising History Conference, University of Lincoln 23.07.09, tba.

Keightley, E and Pickering, MJ (2009) The Concept of Trauma, Memory and Collective Suffering. In Facing the Past/Facing the Future, Memory, Literature at Bahcesehir University, Istanbul 7/5/09. With Michael Pickering, tba.

Keightley, E (2008) Nostalgia and the Movement between Memory and History. In CGC Annual Conference Memory as Medium: Exchange and Representation, Ottawa, Canada, tba.

Keightley, E (2005) Negotiating Nostalgia. In Televising History: the pasts(s) on the small screen symposium, University of Lincoln, tba.

Keightley, E and Pickering, MJ (2005) See Hear: Phonography and Photography as Forms of Historical Representation. In Media History and History in the Media Conference, University of Wales. With Mike Pickering 31/3/200, tba.

Books

Hornabrook, J, Clini, C, Nataraj, P, Keightley, E (2025) Partition and the South Asian Diaspora, Routledge, DOI: 10.4324/9781003621157.

Merrill, S, Keightley, E, Daphi, P (2020) Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media Mobilising Mediated Remembrance, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN: 9783030328269.

Keightley, E and Pickering, M (2017) Memory and the management of change: repossessing the past, Palgrave Macmillan © The Authors, ISBN: 9783319587448. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-58744-8.

Keightley, E and Pickering, M (2015) Photography, Music and Memory Pieces of the Past in Everyday Life, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN: 9781137441201. DOI: 10.1057/9781137441218.

Keightley, E and Pickering, M (ed) (2013) Research Methods for Memory Studies, Edinburgh University Press.

Keightley, E and Pickering, M (2012) The Mnemonic Imagination, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN: 9780230243361.

Keightley, E and Pickering, M (2012) The Mnemonic Imagination,ISBN: 9780230243361.

Keightley, E (ed) (2012) Time, Media and Modernity, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN: 9781137020727.

Chapters

Clini, C, Hornabrook, J, Nataraj, P, Keightley, E (2025) Partition at 75: reflections on migrant memories in the British South Asian diaspora. In Partition and the South Asian Diaspora, Routledge, pp.9-27, DOI: 10.4324/9781003621157-2.

Hornabrook, J, Clini, C, Nataraj, P, Keightley, E (2025) Introduction – Partition and the South Asian diaspora: exploring (inherited) memories and creative practices of remembering. In Partition and the South Asian Diaspora, Routledge, pp.1-8, DOI: 10.4324/9781003621157-1.

Keightley, E (2024) Introduction-Audience places and environments. In Routledge Companion to Media Audiences, pp.421-423, DOI: 10.4324/9781003268543-42.

Hornabrook, J, Clini, C, Keightley, E (2024) Moving memories: Remembering, and forgetting, the Partition of Bengal between South Asia and the United Kingdom. In Roy, R, Sengupta, J, Bandyopadhyay, S (ed) The Long History of Partition in Bengal: Event, Memory, and Identity, Routledge India, pp.184-208, ISBN: 9781032309132.

Hornabrook, J, Clini, C, Keightley, E (2024) Moving Memories: Remembering, and Forgetting, the Partition of Bengal Between South Asia and the UK. In Long History of Partition in Bengal Event Memory Representations, pp.184-208, DOI: 10.4324/9781003317210-13.

Keightley, E and Clini, C (2022) Essay: Familienfotografie, alltägliches diasporisches Gedächtnis und der Umgang mit postkolonialer Erfahrung [Personal photography, vernacular memory, and the management of postcolonial experience]. In Pentzold, C and Lohmeier, C (ed) Handbuch kommunikationswissenschaftliche Erinnerungsforschung: Grundlagen - Arbeitsfelder - Perspektiven, De Gruyter, pp.351-368, ISBN: 9783110626711. DOI: 10.1515/9783110629743-016.

Hornabrook, J, Clini, C, Keightley, E (2021) Creative memory, methodology, and the postcolonial imagination. In Bell, E and Sengupta, SS (ed) Empowering Methodologies in Organisational and Social Research, Routledge,ISBN: 9780367370589. DOI: 10.4324/9780429352492.

Merrill, S, Keightley, E, Daphi, P (2020) Introduction: The Digital Memory Work Practices of Social Movements. In Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, pp.1-30, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-32827-6_1.

Keightley, E, Pickering, M, Bisht, P (2019) Interscalarity and the Memory Spectrum. In Park, D and Maurantonio, N (ed) Communicating Memory & History, Peter Lang, pp.17-38.

Keightley, E and Pickering, M (2017) The Mnemonic Imagination and Second-Generation Migrant Experience. In Zittoun, T and Glaveanu, V (ed) Oxford Handbook of Imagination and Culture, Oxford University Press, pp.167-187, DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190468712.003.0008.

Keightley, E and Pickering, M (2017) Transitions and Turning Points. In Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, pp.21-65, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-58744-8_2.

Keightley, E and Pickering, M (2017) Places of Habitation and Belonging. In Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, pp.115-157, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-58744-8_4.

Keightley, E and Pickering, M (2017) Memory and Mourning. In Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, pp.159-209, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-58744-8_5.

Keightley, E and Pickering, M (2017) Introduction. In Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, pp.1-19, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-58744-8_1.

Keightley, E and Pickering, M (2017) Intimate Relationships. In Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, pp.67-113, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-58744-8_3.

Keightley, E and Pickering, M (2015) Memory, Media and Methodological Footings. In Memory in a Mediated World Remembrance and Reconstruction, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.36-52, ISBN: 9781137470133.

Pickering, M and Keightley, E (2015) Value and Significance. In Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, pp.148-179, DOI: 10.1057/9781137441218_5.

Pickering, M and Keightley, E (2015) Resources for Remembering. In Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, pp.61-105, DOI: 10.1057/9781137441218_3.

Pickering, M and Keightley, E (2015) Purpose and Meaning. In Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, pp.106-147, DOI: 10.1057/9781137441218_4.

Pickering, M and Keightley, E (2015) Pieces of the Past. In Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, pp.180-187, DOI: 10.1057/9781137441218_6.

Pickering, M and Keightley, E (2015) Media and Memory. In Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, pp.33-60, DOI: 10.1057/9781137441218_2.

Pickering, M and Keightley, E (2015) Introduction. In Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, pp.1-32, DOI: 10.1057/9781137441218_1.

Keightley, E and Pickering, M (2014) Retrotyping and the marketing of nostalgia. In Media and Nostalgia: Yearning for the Past, Present and Future, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.83-94, ISBN: 9781137375889.

Pickering, M and Keightley, E (2013) Introduction: Methodological premises and purposes. In Research Methods for Memory Studies, pp.1-9.

Keightley, E (2013) Vernacular Remembering. In Research Methods for Memory Studies, pp.97-114.

Keightley, E (2013) Painful Pasts. In Research Methods for Memory Studies, pp.151-166.

Keightley, E (2012) Introduction: Time, Media, Modernity. In Keightley, E (ed) Time, Media and Modernity, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.1-22.

Keightley, E (2012) Conclusion: Making Time – The Social Temporalities of Mediated Experience. In Keightley, E (ed) Time, Media and Modernity, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.201-223.

Keightley, E and Pickering, M (2012) Creative Memory and Painful Pasts. In Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, pp.165-193, DOI: 10.1057/9781137271549_7.

Keightley, E and Pickering, M (2012) Coda. In Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, pp.194-205, DOI: 10.1057/9781137271549_8.

Keightley, E and Pickering, M (2012) An Outline of What Lies Ahead. In Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, pp.1-13, DOI: 10.1057/9781137271549_1.

Keightley, E and Pickering, M (2012) The Reclamation of Nostalgia. In Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, pp.112-138, DOI: 10.1057/9781137271549_5.

Keightley, E and Pickering, M (2012) The Foreclosure of Mnemonic Imagining. In Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, pp.139-164, DOI: 10.1057/9781137271549_6.

Keightley, E and Pickering, M (2012) Personal and Popular Memory. In Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, pp.81-111, DOI: 10.1057/9781137271549_4.

Keightley, E and Pickering, M (2012) Memory and Experience. In Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, pp.14-42, DOI: 10.1057/9781137271549_2.

Deacon, DN and Keightley, E (2011) Quantitative Audience Research: Embracing the Poor Relation. In Nightingale, VE (ed) The Handbook of Media Audiences, Blackwell, pp.302-319.

Keightley, E and Pickering, MJ (2008) Engaging with Memory. In Pickering, ME (ed) Research Methods for Cultural Studies, Edinburgh University Press, tba.

Keightley, E and Pickering, MJ (2008) Echoes and Reverberations: Photography and Phonography as Historical Forms. In Nicholas, O'Malley, eds, W (ed) Reconstructing the Past: History in the Mass Media 1890-2005, Routledge, tba.

Keightley, E (2008) Fictional Media Content. In ed, WD (ed) The International Encyclopedia of Communication, Blackwell, tba.

Other

Belvedresi, RE, Garde-Hansen, J, Hirst, W, Keightley, E, Murakami, K, Onyeneho, G, Wertsch, JV, Reading, A, Rigney, A, Savelsberg, JJ (2014) The vague and complex character of collective memory: on The Collective Memory Reader, The vague and complex character of collective memory: on The Collective Memory Reader. DOI: 10.1177/1750698013505029.

Keightley, E (2010) Koresaar, Lauk, E. and Kuutma ‘The Burden of Remembering’.

Keightley, E and Lull, J (2009) Culture-on-Demand: Communication in a Crisis World.

Keightley, E (2009) Mithander, Sundholm and Holmgren-Troy, 'Collective Traumas'.

Keightley, E (2008) A Companion to Media Studies.

Keightley, E and Cubitt, G (2008) History and Memory.

Keightley, E and Petley, J (2008) Censoring the Word.

Keightley, E (2007) News in Public Memory.

Keightley, E and Brabazon, T (2007) From Revolution to Revelation.

Keightley, E, Wallace, M, Wray, A (2007) Critical Reading and Writing for Postgrads.

Keightley, E (2007) Hoult, E. 'Learning Support: A Guide for Mature Students'.