The Memory of Cultural Heritage through the Prism of a Digital Platform: the Case of the Fête des Vignerons on notreHistoire.ch Cover Image

La mémoire d’un patrimoine culturel au prisme d’une plateforme numérique : le cas de la Fête des Vignerons sur notreHistoire.ch
The Memory of Cultural Heritage through the Prism of a Digital Platform: the Case of the Fête des Vignerons on notreHistoire.ch

Author(s): Tatiana Smirnova, Elodie Fischer, Mylène Tanferri
Subject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, Media studies, Archiving, Electronic information storage and retrieval, Sociology of Culture
Published by: ESSACHESS
Keywords: Web; social media; archives; memory; Fête des Vignerons;

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the socio-cultural event of the Fête des Vignerons, which takes place in French-speaking Switzerland every 20 to 25 years, and its archiving on social media. Based on an online and on-site ethnography, we analyze how social media contribute to the preservation of cultural heritage and from which elements the collective memory of this event is built. Grounding on the data published on the regional platform notreHistoire.ch, we identified three categories of memory traces in social media and described the particularities of memory observed through user content and practices.

  • Issue Year: 15/2022
  • Issue No: 29 (1)
  • Page Range: 35-58
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: French