Virtual Landscapes of Memory

Mikula, Maja

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“…Kitch (2002) noted that when consumer magazines celebrate their founding, they not only define American values and reinforce journalists' cultural authority but also create collective memory. Mikula (2003) discussed how two non-journalistic websites used repressed collective memory to skillfully manipulate the medium. No studies, however, have examined how images on news websites frame ongoing events and then recall them at a later time.…”

Section: Collective Memory and The Mass Mediamentioning

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Remembering Our Shared Past: Visually Framing the Iraq War on U.S. News Websites

Schwalbe

2006

J Comp Mediated Comm

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This exploratory study analyzes how United States news websites visually portray ongoing (contemporaneous) events and examines their potential role in shaping collective memory by commemorating past (resurrected) events through anniversary retrospectives. A content analysis of 526 images on the home pages of 26 mainstream news sites indicates that during the first five weeks of the Iraq War, the visual emphasis shifted from the official U.S. war machine to the more personal face of those touched by war, both Americans and Iraqis, as photojournalists traveled with the troops to Baghdad. The five main frames that emerged reinforced the patriotic, government-friendly war narrative: conflict, conquest, rescue, victory, and control. By the first, second, and third anniversaries of the war, the visual coverage of hostilities had dropped dramatically. This article discusses some of the reasons why online news sites did not feature many anniversary commemorations of the Iraq War.

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Section: Collective Memory and The Mass Mediamentioning

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Remembering Our Shared Past: Visually Framing the Iraq War on U.S. News Websites

Schwalbe

2006

J Comp Mediated Comm

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“…(See Graph Yugosphere-1 in the colour section at the end of this Issue.) 12 But Yugoslavia and 'yugonostalgics' never disappeared completely from the Web, and someone like Maja Mikula (2003) tried to even reconstruct the 'virtual landscapes of memory' of the dissolved socialist republic. One of the cases she studied is probably the most curious experiment of 'cybercitizenship' in the Web of the last years: CyberJugoslavia (www.juga.com, now offline).…”

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What remains of Yugoslavia? From the geopolitical space of Yugoslavia to the virtual space of the Web Yugosphere

Mazzucchelli

2012

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This article works from the double hypothesis that: (1) a Yugoslav socio-cultural space still exists in spite of the dissolution of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; and (2) the communities 'occupying' this space can be considered, in some measure, 'diasporic', if the 'Yugoslav diaspora' is defined by not only the geographic displacement of people but also by the loosening of connections between members of an ex-nation who still consider themselves a national community. The 'space' mapped in the article is the so-called 'virtual space' of the Web, including all websites that reconnect to the 'cultural languages' of the 'past-country'. The author observes how these 'different Yugoslavias' are 'staged' and linked together on the Web, and verifies how some far-flung communities rally around the 'virtual re-foundation' and 'virtual representations' of Yugoslavia. The corpus is constituted mainly of 'yugonostalgic' websites that are subjected to a content analysis. The 191 websites of the corpus and the hypertextual map of their edges are analysed using semantic features together with other tools of categorization. RésuméL'article part d'une double hypothèse: (1) un espace socio-culturel Yougoslave existe encore en dépit de la dissolution de l'ancienne République Fédérale Socialiste de Yougoslavie; et (2) les communautés 'occupant' cet espace peuvent être considérées,

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“…So far film has received the most concerted attention, with studies typically privileging the analysis of cinematic texts over the analysis of audience reception and the political and economic uses of mediated representations of the past (Bardan In contrast, research concerned with the mnemonic functions of television is more sociologically minded, pays less attention to televisual representations themselves, but regularly reaches beyond the analysis of television programmes to investigate how they interact with shifts in the wider political, cultural or economic context (Khinkulova 2012, Imre 2013 or how they enter processes of vernacular and autobiographical memory formation (Bloch 2013, Lepp and Pantti 2013, Reifová 2009, Reifová et al 2012, SorescuMarinković 2012. Studies of digital memories (e.g., Mikula 2003, Kaprans 2015, Rutten et al 2013, radio (e.g., Kaun and Stiernstedt 2012) and photography (e.g., Petrović 2009, Sarkisova and Shevchenko 2014) started emerging as well.While elucidating the embeddedness of mediated memory in specific locales, the preference for local, small-scale research has also meant that discussion has remained fragmented, with little attempt to develop a more general reflection on the nature of mediated memory in the post-socialist context. Engagement with wider debates on the role of the media in mnemonic processes has been limited as well, with research typically applying established conceptual frameworks rather than using post-socialist materials to contribute new insights into the mediation of memory more generally.…”

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“…In contrast, research concerned with the mnemonic functions of television is more sociologically minded, pays less attention to televisual representations themselves, but regularly reaches beyond the analysis of television programmes to investigate how they interact with shifts in the wider political, cultural or economic context (Khinkulova 2012, Imre 2013 or how they enter processes of vernacular and autobiographical memory formation (Bloch 2013, Lepp and Pantti 2013, Reifová 2009, Reifová et al 2012, SorescuMarinković 2012. Studies of digital memories (e.g., Mikula 2003, Kaprans 2015, Rutten et al 2013, radio (e.g., Kaun and Stiernstedt 2012) and photography (e.g., Petrović 2009, Sarkisova andShevchenko 2014) started emerging as well.…”

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Memory, post-socialism and the media: Nostalgia and beyond

Mihelj

2016

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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it offers a critical review of the main trends in existing research, focussing on four key issues: the fascination with nostalgic modes of remembering, the dominance of national frames of analysis, the lack of research on the mediation of personal and vernacular remembering, and the privileging of descriptive over explanatory modes of analysis. Second, the article outlines a new agenda for the field, and proposes three main research trajectories. The first pays attention to how mediated memories at local and national levels interact with transnational processes of remembering the Cold War, the second focusses on to the intersections between personal and public modes of mediated remembering, and the last moves the discussion from description to explanation, using comparative approaches to advance explanations of different modes of mediated postsocialist memories.Keywords: memory, media, post-socialism, nostalgia, television, transnational memoryThe demise of state socialism in Eastern Europe triggered a profound restructuring of individual and collective relationships with the socialist past. Released from the straightjacket of Cold War politics, memories of the Second World War, the communist takeover and the decades of life under communist rule provided a rich resource for politically driven mythmaking across the political spectrum, as well as for creative engagements with the past in the visual arts and museums (e.g., Bernhard and Kubik 2014, Boym 2001, Sarkisova and Apor 2008, Tileaga 2012, Todorova and Gille 2010. Narratives of the socialist past also became important at vernacular and everyday level, and served as vehicles for making sense of the post-socialist transformation and for orienting one's own sense of identity and belonging (e.g., Berdahl 2010, Mark 2010, Mihelj 2014, Rabikowska 2013. The rich and growing body of scholarly work on post-socialist memory has by now provided important insights into the varied layers and processes of memory formation in the region, ranging from public to vernacular and personal memories, as well as helped further our understanding of mnemonic processes more generally, elucidating the ways in which they are affected by rapid political, economic and social changes.In recent years, the role of the media in shaping post-socialist memories has also begun to attract attention. One of the notable traits of existing research in this area is its preference for small-scale case studies focused on a single medium and situated in specific national locales (for an exception see Volčič 2007). So far film has received the most concerted attention, with studies typically privileging the analysis of cinematic texts over the analysis of audience reception and the political and economic uses of mediated representations of the past (Bardan In contrast, research concerned with the mnemonic functions of television is more sociologically minded, pays less attention to televisual representations themselves, but regularly reaches beyond the analysis of television programmes to investigate h...

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Virtual Landscapes of Memory

Cited by 10 publications

References 14 publications

Remembering Our Shared Past: Visually Framing the Iraq War on U.S. News Websites

Remembering Our Shared Past: Visually Framing the Iraq War on U.S. News Websites

What remains of Yugoslavia? From the geopolitical space of Yugoslavia to the virtual space of the Web Yugosphere

Memory, post-socialism and the media: Nostalgia and beyond

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