Memory, Conflict and New Media: Web Wars in Post-Socialist States
London; New York: Routledge (2013), xv, 265 pp.
Contains index
Series: Media, War and Security
ISBN 9781138847613 (pbk); 9780203083635 (online)
Introduction: Old Conflict, New Media: Post-Socialist Digital Memories / Ellen Rutten and Vera Zvereva, 1
I. CONCEPTS OF MEMORY
1 Europe's Other World: Romany Memory within the New Dynamics of the Globital Memory Field / Anna Reading, 21
2 Mourning and Melancholia in Putin's Russia: An Essay in Mnemonics / Alexander Etkind, 32
3 Memory Events and Memory Wars: Victory Day in L'viv, 2011 through the Prism of Quantitative Analysis / Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa, 48
4 War of Memories in the Ukrainian Media: Diversity of Identities, Political Confrontation, and Production Technologies / Volodymyr Kulyk, 63
5 #Holodomor: Twitter and Public Discourse in Ukraine / Martin Paulsen, 82
II. WORDS OF MEMORY
6 "A Stroll Through the Keywords of my Memory": Digitally Mediated Commemoration of the Soviet Linguistic Heritage / Ingunn Lunde, 101
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, 112
8 Building Wiki-History: Between Consensus and Edit Warring / Helene Dounaevsky, 130
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, 143
10 Rust on the Monument: Challenging the Myth of Victory in Belarus / Aliaksei Lastouski, 158
III. IMAGES OF MEMORY
11 Between RuNet and UkrNet: Mapping the Crimean Web War / Maria Pasholok, 175
12 Repeating History? The Computer Game as Historiographic Device / Gernot Howanitz, 182
13 The Digital (Artistic) Memory of Nicolae Ceausescu / Caterina Preda, 197
14 Witnessing War, Globalizing Victory: Representations of World War II on the Website Russia Today / Jussi Lassila, 215
15 From "The Second Katyn" to "A Day Without Smolensk": Facebook Responses to the Smolensk Tragedy and its Aftermath / Dieter de Bruyn, 228
Conclusion / Julie Fedor
Timeline: New Media and Memory Politics
I. CONCEPTS OF MEMORY
1 Europe's Other World: Romany Memory within the New Dynamics of the Globital Memory Field / Anna Reading, 21
2 Mourning and Melancholia in Putin's Russia: An Essay in Mnemonics / Alexander Etkind, 32
3 Memory Events and Memory Wars: Victory Day in L'viv, 2011 through the Prism of Quantitative Analysis / Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa, 48
4 War of Memories in the Ukrainian Media: Diversity of Identities, Political Confrontation, and Production Technologies / Volodymyr Kulyk, 63
5 #Holodomor: Twitter and Public Discourse in Ukraine / Martin Paulsen, 82
II. WORDS OF MEMORY
6 "A Stroll Through the Keywords of my Memory": Digitally Mediated Commemoration of the Soviet Linguistic Heritage / Ingunn Lunde, 101
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, 112
8 Building Wiki-History: Between Consensus and Edit Warring / Helene Dounaevsky, 130
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, 143
10 Rust on the Monument: Challenging the Myth of Victory in Belarus / Aliaksei Lastouski, 158
III. IMAGES OF MEMORY
11 Between RuNet and UkrNet: Mapping the Crimean Web War / Maria Pasholok, 175
12 Repeating History? The Computer Game as Historiographic Device / Gernot Howanitz, 182
13 The Digital (Artistic) Memory of Nicolae Ceausescu / Caterina Preda, 197
14 Witnessing War, Globalizing Victory: Representations of World War II on the Website Russia Today / Jussi Lassila, 215
15 From "The Second Katyn" to "A Day Without Smolensk": Facebook Responses to the Smolensk Tragedy and its Aftermath / Dieter de Bruyn, 228
Conclusion / Julie Fedor
Timeline: New Media and Memory Politics
