Memory, Conflict and New Media by Ellen Rutten, Julie Fedor -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of illustrations Notes on contributors Acknowledgements A note on translation and transliteration Introduction: old conflicts, new media: post-socialist digital memories

Introduction Digital memories and post-socialist space Introducing post-socialist digital memories Conclusion: limitations, variations, perspectives Notes References

Part One: Concepts of memory

References 1. Europe’s other world: Romany memory within the new dynamics of the globital memory field

The globital memory field Roma memory: forms of erasure in older media Roma memory in the globital memory field Conclusion Notes References

2. Mourning and melancholia in Putin’s Russia: an essay in mnemonics

Introduction Mapping memory’s digital traces Post-Soviet melancholia Conclusion Notes References

3. Memory events and memory wars: Victory Day in L’viv, 2011 through the prism of quantitative analysis

Introduction Victory day Empirical cases The official discourse war The media war The war in social media Conclusion Note References

4. War of memories in the Ukrainian media: diversity of identities, political confrontation, and production technologies

Introduction Memory and identity in media discourse Contestation of identities in post-Soviet Ukraine Historical memory in ‘old’ media History goes online

Online media outlets Blogs Social network V Kontakte

Conclusion References

5. #Holodomor: Twitter and public discourse in Ukraine

Introduction Theoretical framework: on Twitter as a medium On the method Findings

Information diffusion Diffuse conversations

Conclusion Notes References

Part Two: Words of memory

Notes References 6. ‘A stroll through the keywords of my memory’: digitally mediated commemoration of the Soviet linguistic heritage

Introduction The Soviet linguistic heritage

The personal experience Reflections on the process of commemoration References to the language culture of today

Conclusion Notes References

7. Memory and self-legitimization in the Russian blogosphere: argumentative practices in historical and political discussions in Russian-language blogs of the 2000s

Introduction Social setting: memory wars Case study: the Kurskaia metro station controversy

Selective archaeology and the ‘grand museum’ Family narratives: the rhetoric of tragic heredity

Conclusion Notes References

8. Building Wiki-history: between consensus and edit warring

Introduction Wikipedia, edit wars and post-Soviet space A survey: post-Soviet Wikipedia and memory wars Wikipedia’s ‘exercises in history’ Notes References

9. News framing under conditions of unsettled conflict: an analysis of Georgian online and print news around the 2008 Russo–Georgian War

Introduction News framing in times of war and peace

Hypothesis 1

Conflict framing in online and print news media

Hypothesis 2

Research design and methodology

Case selection Period of study Media sample and unit of analysis

Coding measures and process News framing in pre- and post-war Georgia Conclusion and discussion Notes References

10. Rust on the monument: challenging the myth of Victory in Belarus

Introduction Belarus and the Second World War memory Alternate voices: old memories, new media Belarusian digital memory and Victory Day

LiveJournal

L’viv incident: Belarusian reflection Conclusion Notes References

Part Three: Images of memory

Note Reference 11. Between Runet and Ukrnet: mapping the Crimean web war

Introduction Virtual and visual Digital maps of the conflict Urban practices Conclusion Notes References

12. Repeating history? The computer game as historiographic device

Introduction Computer games and history The games: a brief overview Corollaries of repetition Memory games – memory wars Conclusion Notes Games Bibliography

13. The digital (artistic) memory of Nicolae Ceauşescu

Digital memories and Romania: theoretical background Nicolae Ceauşescu: brief historical reminder The many faces of Ceauşescu online Institutional/official Personal/private – nostalgic and hateful Artistic: the art of memorialization and obsessive Ceauşescu Conclusion Notes References

14. Witnessing war, globalizing victory: representations of the Second World War on the website Russia Today

Introduction Russia Today: background Online exclusive: RT’s War Witness Managing Stalin for a global audience Conclusion Notes References

15. From ‘The Second Katyn’ to ‘A Day Without Smolensk’: Facebook responses to the Smolensk tragedy and its aftermath

Poland and historical memory Polish memory and social media Facebook and the Smolensk tragedy From SNS to offline intervention Conclusion Notes References

Conclusion

Notes References

Timeline: New media and memory politics

1989 to 1991 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 to 2003 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

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