Omaehtoisen muistamisen materiaalisuus ja monimediaisuus

Savolainen, Ulla; Lukin, Karina; Heimo, Anne

doi:10.30666/elore.89039

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“…Where appropriate, I will discuss other media that has influenced Finnish memory culture, and therefore conduct wider comparative media analysis to assess the variety of media that has influenced Finnis war memory (e.g. Savolainen et al 2020).…”

Section: Visual Heritage In Social Media: a Multidisciplinary Approachmentioning

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White death: finnish world war two narrative and alternative heritage work in social media

Matila

2020

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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This paper discusses Finnish war commemoration in social media where the public connects with their history through wartime photography. The focus is on one Finnish social media site that chooses images out of the official Finnish military photography collection for posting. Through social media, the public can participate in heritage work themselves and these sites are becoming increasingly important in creating views of the nation's past. The pages tend to repeat nationalistic narratives and recreate national myths. One important symbol in Finnish cultural imaginings is the colour white. In the imagery of World War Two, with Finnish soldiers dressed in white snow camouflage, it is used to emphasise the moral purity and innocence and victimhood of the nation. Such symbolism can distort understandings of the war, and the social media pages have become venues where ethnonationalism is maintained and even racist discourse accepted. I argue that more attention should be paid to photography in the construction of heritage narratives, and professionals should react to the kind of heritage invoked by the public in social media.

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Section: Visual Heritage In Social Media: a Multidisciplinary Approachmentioning

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“…Alternative heritage is not oppositional to professional work and strongly echoes the values that are deemed appropriate for the nation in the culture at large (Savolainen et al 2020). Amateur history follows dominant ideological tones and the social media site is not disconnected from broader national heritage narratives.…”

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White death: finnish world war two narrative and alternative heritage work in social media

Matila

2020

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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The musical legacy of the 1918 Finnish Civil War on YouTube

Heimo

Mustamo²,

Rantanen³

2022

Cult. Unbound

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Conflicts such as wars, rebellions and revolutions often give rise to songs that pass on from one generation to another. This applies also to the bloody 1918 Finnish Civil War, which led to the death of nearly 37 000 people (about 1% of the population), of whom the majority 27 000 belonged to the defeated, the Reds, and affected Finnish society on every level and in long-lasting ways, some of which can still be acknowledged today. For decades after the war official and public commemoration of the war dead applied only to the winners, the Whites, whereas the Reds were forced to mourn and honour their dead in the private sphere. On both sides, songs were first a popular way of keeping up spirits and then after the war to commemorate the war. These songs were sung at funerals, parades as well as to mock the enemy. Today some of these songs as well as new ones on the topic are still popular and circulate in various versions on YouTube and other social media sites. These music videos are often remixes of original footage and photos used together with images from other sources. The most popular videos have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times. In this article, we explore the digital heritage of the 1918 Finnish Civil War by giving first an overview of the musical legacy of the war and then analyse how and why this musical legacy continues to flourish on YouTube.

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Omaehtoisen muistamisen materiaalisuus ja monimediaisuus

Cited by 2 publications

References 13 publications

White death: finnish world war two narrative and alternative heritage work in social media

White death: finnish world war two narrative and alternative heritage work in social media

The musical legacy of the 1918 Finnish Civil War on YouTube

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