Remediating Violence: Second World War memory on Wikipedia

Authors
Publication date 05-2018
Journal Remembrance and Solidarity
Volume | Issue number 6
Pages (from-to) 123-143
Number of pages 21
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM)
Abstract The article examines how memory of past violence is remediated online and how its remediation interacts with contemporary collective traumas in post-socialist countries. For this purpose, it examines how a single episode of the Second World War – the Battle of Kyiv of 1943 – is represented and interacted with on Wikipedia. Using web content analysis, the article traces the evolution of narratives of past violence in different language versions of the encyclopedia and explores how the current conflict in Ukraine affects the refashioning of Second World War memory in digital media.
Document type Article
Note In special issue: Violence in 20th-century European History: Commemorating, Documenting, Educating
Language English
Published at https://enrs.eu/studies/studies6
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