Memory, Conflict and New Media

Web Wars in Post-Socialist States
Herausgeber: Rutten, Ellen; Zvereva, Vera; Fedor, Julie

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the online memory wars in post-Soviet states â where political conflicts take the shape of heated debates about the recent past, and especially World War II and Soviet socialism.

Produktdetails

• Media, War and Security
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9781138847613
• ISBN-10: 1138847615
• Artikelnr.: 41456550

Autorenporträt

Ellen Rutten is Professor of Slavic Literatures and Cultures at the University of Amsterdam, and is author of Unattainable Bride Russia (2010). Julie Fedor is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is author of Russia and the Cult of State Security (Routledge, 2011) and a contributing author to Remembering Katyn (Polity Press, 2012). Vera Zvereva is a Research Fellow at the Princess Dashkova Russian Centre, Edinburgh University, UK, and is author of Network Talks: Cultural Communication on the Russian Internet (University of Bergen, 2012) and Real Life on TV Screen (RSUH, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Old Conflict, New Media: Post-Socialist Digital Memories,
Ellen Rutten and Vera Zvereva Part I: Concepts of Memory 1. Europe's Other
World: Romany Memory within the New Dynamics of the Globital Memory Field,
Anna Reading 2. Mourning and Melancholia in Putin's Russia: An Essay in
Mnemonics, Alexander Etkind 3. Memory Events and Memory Wars: Victory Day
in L'viv, 2011 through the Prism of Quantitative Analysis, Galina
Nikiporets-Takigawa 4. War of Memories in the Ukrainian Media: Diversity of
Identities, Political Confrontation, and Production Technologies,
Volodymyr Kulyk 5. #Holodomor - Twitter and Public Discourse in Ukraine,
Martin Paulsen Part II: Words of Memory 6. 'A Stroll Through the Keywords
of my Memory': Digitally Mediated Commemoration of the Soviet Linguistic
Heritage, Ingunn Lunde 7. Memory and Self-Legitimization in the Russian
Blogosphere: Argumentative Practices in Historical and Political
Discussions in Russian-Language Blogs of the 2000s, Ilya Kukulin 8.
Building Wiki-History: Between Consensus and Edit Warring, Helene
Dounaevsky 9. News Framing under Conditions of Unsettled Conflict: An
Analysis of Georgian Online and Print News around the 2008 Russo-Georgian
War, Doreen Spoerer-Wagner 10. Rust on the Monument: Challenging the Myth
of Victory in Belarus, Aliaksei Lastouski Part III: Images of Memory 11.
Between RuNet and UkrNet: Mapping the Crimean Web War, Maria Pasholok 12.
Repeating History? The Computer Game as Historiographic Device, Gernot
Howanitz 13. The Digital (Artistic) Memory of Nicolae Ceausescu, Caterina
Preda 14. Witnessing War, Globalizing Victory: Representations of World War
II on the Website Russia Today, Jussi Lassila 15. From 'The Second Katyn'
to 'A Day Without Smolensk': Facebook Responses to the Smolensk Tragedy and
its Aftermath, Dieter de Bruyn Conclusion, Julie Fedor Timeline: New Media
and Memory Politics