Remembering the Republic’s Day – the Adhocracy of Recollection. An Internet Based Case Study on Remembering August 23rd
Remembering the Republic’s Day – the Adhocracy of Recollection. An Internet Based Case Study on Remembering August 23rd
Author(s): Adrian StoicescuSubject(s): Politics, Electronic information storage and retrieval, Civil Society, Communication studies, Oral history
Published by: Centrul de Studii Memoriale și Identitare
Keywords: Digital Sites of Memory; Past vs. Present Trauma; Remembrance; Digital as Memory Agent
Summary/Abstract: This paper aims at seeing how the memory of a recent event is reactivated in the digital space looking both at what kind of events are recalled, how people feel about such events and what weight they carry when it comes to judge the present times. On the other hand, memory represents only a pretext for the much wider space of remembering. The digital medium hosting the recollection may function as digital place of memory in sense that not only does it enable a special type of communication between the exhibit and the viewer, but at the same time since it enables the interaction among the participant to the process of memory in the making. Furthermore, the digital site of memory co-hosts two conjoint types of profane rituals, that is the ritual of remembering and that of digitally displaying such memories.
Journal: MemoScapes. Romanian Journal of Memory and Identity Studies
- Issue Year: 1/2017
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 85-99
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English