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Title Memory, conflict and new media : Web wars in post-socialist states / edited by Ellen Rutten, Julie Fedor and Vera Zvereva
Published Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 265 pages)
Series Media, war and security
Media, war and security.
Contents Old Conflict, New Media : Post-Socialist Digital Memories / Ellen Rutten and Vera Zvereva -- Part One. Concepts of Memory -- Europe's Other World : Romany Memory within the New Dynamics of the Globital Memory Field / Anna Reading -- Mourning and Melancholia in Putin's Russia : An Essay in Mnemonics / Alexander Etkind -- Memory Events and Memory Wars : Victory Day in L'viv, 2011 through the Prism of Quantitative Analysis / Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa -- War of Memories in the Ukrainian Media : Diversity of Identities, Political Confrontation, and Production Technologies / Volodymyr Kulyk -- #Holodomor : Twitter and Public Discourse in Ukraine / Martin Paulsen -- Part Two. Words of Memory -- "A Stroll Through the Keywords of my Memory" : Digitally Mediated Commemoration of the Soviet Linguistic Heritage / Ingunn Lunde -- Memory and Self-Legitimization in the Russian Blogosphere : Argumentative Practices in Historical and Political Discussions in Russian-Language Blogs of the 2000s / Ilya Kukulin -- Building Wiki-History : Between Consensus and Edit Warring / Helene Dounaevsky -- News Framing under Conditions of Unsettled Conflict : An Analysis of Georgian Online and Print News around the 2008 Russo-Georgian War / Doreen Spoerer-Wagner -- Rust on the Monument : Challenging the Myth of Victory in Belarus / Aliaksei Lastouski -- Part Three. Images of Memory -- Between RuNet and UkrNet : Mapping the Crimean Web War / Maria Pasholok -- Repeating History? The Computer Game as Historiographic Device / Gernot Howanitz -- The Digital (Artistic) Memory of Nicolae Ceausescu / Caterina Preda -- Witnessing War, Globalizing Victory : Representations of World War II on the Website Russia Today / Jussi Lassila -- 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
Summary "This book examines the online memory wars in post-Soviet states - where political conflicts take the shape of heated debates about the recent past, and especially World War II and Soviet socialism. To this day, former socialist states face the challenge of constructing national identities, producing national memories, and relating to the Soviet legacy. Their pasts are principally intertwined: changing readings of history in one country generate fierce reactions in others. In this transnational memory war, digital media form a pivotal discursive space - one that provides speakers with radically new commemorative tools. Uniting contributions by leading scholars in the field, Memory, Conflict and New Media is the first book-length publication to analyse how new media serve as a site of political and national identity building in post-socialist states. The book also examines how the construction of online identity is irreversibly affected by thinking about the past in this geopolitical domain. By highlighting post-socialist memory's digital mediations and digital memory's transcultural scope, the volume succeeds in a twofold aim: to deepen and refine both (post-socialist) memory theory and digital-memory studies. This book will be of much interest to students of media studies, post-Soviet studies, Eastern European Politics, memory studies and International Relations in general."--Publisher's website
Notes "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references andindex
Notes Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL
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Subject World Wide Web -- Political aspects -- Former Soviet republics
Mass media -- Political aspects -- Former Soviet republics
Collective memory -- Former Soviet republics
Political culture -- Former Soviet republics
Post-communism -- Former Soviet republics
Social conflict -- Former Soviet republics
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Violence in Society.
Collective memory
Mass media -- Political aspects
Political culture
Politics and government
Post-communism
Social conditions
Social conflict
Massmedia -- politiska aspekter.
Postkommunism.
Politisk kultur.
Internet -- politiska aspekter.
Kollektivt minne i massmedia.
SUBJECT Former Soviet republics -- Politics and government
Former Soviet republics -- Social conditions
Subject Soviet Union -- Former Soviet republics
Form Electronic book
Author Rutten, Ellen, 1975-
Fedor, Julie.
Zvereva, V. V. (Vera Vladimirovna)
LC no. 2012039647
ISBN 9781136186424
1136186425
9780203083635
0203083636
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1299469078
9781136186417
1136186417
9781136186370
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