The DOI matches its Crossref record; 52 of the 52 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Collective memory: Conceptual foundations and theoretical approaches
Abstract
In order to outline the conceptual landscape that frames discussions of collective memory, three oppositions are proposed: collective memory versus collective remembering; history versus collective memory; and individual memory versus collective remembering. From this perspective collective remembering is viewed as an active process that often involves contention and contestation among people rather than a static body of knowledge that they possess. Collective remembering is also viewed as privileging identity formation and contestation over the sort of objective representation of the past that is the aspiration of formal historical analysis. And finally, while collective remembering involves individual minds, it also suggests something more in the form of socially situated individuals, a claim that can usefully be formulated in terms of how members of a groups share a common set of cultural tools (e.g., narrative forms) and similar content.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
(1991) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.28-6498 · Cited by 8,149
Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Mémoire
Nora, P. (1989) · Representations · doi:10.2307/2928520 · Cited by 6,300
Mental Representations: A Dual Coding Approach
Paivio, A. (1986) · Medical Entomology and Zoology · Cited by 5,087
Halbwachs, M., & Coser, L. A. (1992) · doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226774497.001.0001 · Cited by 4,939
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
Burrell, D. B., & MacIntyre, A. (1984) · Journal of Law and Religion · doi:10.2307/1051043 · Cited by 3,573
38. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
MacIntyre, A. (2016) · Essays and Reviews · doi:10.1515/9781400848393-039 · Cited by 3,326
Ricœur, P., McLaughlin, K., & Pellauer, D. (1986) · Medical Entomology and Zoology · Cited by 2,705
Priming and Human Memory Systems
Tulving, E., & Schacter, D. L. (1990) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.2296719 · Cited by 2,595
Origins of the modern mind: three stages in the evolution of culture and cognition
(1992) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.29-4184 · Cited by 2,427
Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology
Bartlett, F. C., & Kintsch, W. (1995) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511759185 · Cited by 2,376
Cited by
Activist memory narration on social media: Armenian genocide on Instagram
Davidjants, J., & Tiidenberg, K. (2022) · New Media & Society · doi:10.1177/1461444821989634 · Cited by 31
Re-meme-bering Tiananmen? From collective memory to meta-memory on TikTok
Seet, S., & Tandoc, E. C. (2024) · Media, Culture & Society · doi:10.1177/01634437231191413 · Cited by 28
Understanding Autobiographical Memory in the Digital Age: The AMEDIA-Model
Hutmacher, F., Appel, M., & Schwan, S. (2024) · Psychological Inquiry · doi:10.1080/1047840x.2024.2384125 · Cited by 12
The Technological Mediation of Collective Memory Through Historical Video Games
Matei, Ș. (2025) · Games and Culture · doi:10.1177/15554120231206862 · Cited by 5
Metadata
- Authors
- Wertsch, J. V., & Roediger, H. L.
- Venue
- Memory
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2008-04
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 318-326
- ISSN
- 0965-8211 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-0686
- OpenAlex
- W2084636435
- Cited by
- 428
- References
- 52
- FWCI
- 79.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Collective memory: Conceptual foundations and theoretical approaches. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1080/09658210701801434
- The paper
- Wertsch, J. V., & Roediger, H. L. (2008). Collective memory: Conceptual foundations and theoretical approaches. Memory. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658210701801434
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
