This study focuses on the movie Hotel Rwanda (2005), which depicts the Rwandan genocide of 1994, and tries to capture how viewers remember the film and how they interpret the actual events. It aims to reconstruct what (e.g. actors, events, motives, causes) is remembered by whom (e.g. age, sex, education) and in what way (e.g. context, dramatization). One important finding is that it is much less the movie’s narration and pictures that shape the interpretation and knowledge of the event as it is the background and personality of its audience that determines how viewers understand the events, what they remember and how these memories are constructed.
Abstract. We introduce a tool that supports knowledge workers who want to gain insights from a tweet collection, but due to time constraints cannot go over all tweets. Our system first pre-processes, de-duplicates, and clusters the tweets. The detected clusters are presented to the expert as so-called information threads. Subsequently, based on the information thread labels provided by the expert, a classifier is trained that can be used to classify additional tweets. As a case study, the tool is evaluated on a tweet collection based on the key terms 'genocide' and 'Rohingya'. The average precision and recall of the classifier on six classes is 0.83 and 0.82 respectively. At this level of performance, experts can use the tool to manage tweet collections efficiently without missing much information.
The basic function of a reference to the past, commonly referred to as memory, is to provide interpretations and narratives that codify present behaviors to appear meaningful, coherent, and just. When observing how these references are organized in collectives-in the case of Germany, a nation-and in relevant spheres such as culture, education, and politics, the commonly used term, memory culture, would be apt. It is precisely in the domain of memory culture where national practices begin to differ. This article argues that the dominating modus of talking about the (especially National Socialist) past in Germany could be considered meta-discursive. Such a memory culture focuses on what Reinhard Koselleck has called a "negative memory," 1 and contains, at least at first sight, a tendency to be antior even post-heroic. Moreover, it is utilized constantly in discussions about the very act of remembering itself.The starting point of this article was a coincidental discovery during the analysis of data from the research project "The Europeanization of National Memoryscapes" 2 at the Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen. The project explored dynamics of remembrance in Germany, Austria, and Poland with a major focus on World War II. 3 One of the methods adopted was discussions with more than sixty groups-differentiated into two types-in the three participating countries. The first covered families and people of different age brackets coming either from urban or rural areas in Poland and Austria, or in the case of Germany, from its eastern or western parts. The second type was comprised of people whose work in one way or
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