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Collective Memory and Digital Practices of Remembrance

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As digital media lead to a transformation of the experience of time and space, they evoke new questions for the field of both personal and collective memory and history. While the bonds that held groups together in pre-modern societies once guaranteed the sustainability of social memory, patterns of common belonging have changed in today’s computerized world. This chapter argues that digital communication technologies have given rise to new unique forms of collectivity through the opportunities they afford for bringing people together around the globe. Furthermore, digital media provide emplacement for collective and global memory. The chapter also raises the issue of whether digital records have the potential to oppose official historiographies with grassroots counterhistory.

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Notes

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    This term was conceived of as an “update version” of the older portmanteau word “prosumer” coined in 1980 by Alvin Toffler and describes simultaneous producers and users of digital media content.

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    http://bianet.org/bianet/insan-haklari/139114-susmak-kaybedenleri-cesaretlendirir-susmayacagiz and http://bianet.org/bianet/insan-haklari/139289-savasa-degil-barisa-yatirim-yapin.

  3. 3.

    http://hakikatadalethafiza.org, http://hakikatadalethafiza.org/tag/cumartesi-anneleri.

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    An expression used by Rakel Dink, the widow of the journalist and chief editor of the newspaper Agos Hrant Dink, in a public statement after the murder of her husband by nationalist forces on January 19, 2007.

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    http://www.bianet.org/bianet/medya/166379-carpitilmis-hafizaya-alternatif-bir-hafiza-icin?bia_source=facebook&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook. Accessed: October 30, 2016.

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    For instance, the platform bak.ma (“Do not look”) documents the recent history of Turkey with images, sound recordings, and eyewitness accounts that critically contest, among other, the official rendering of the Gezi Park protests in June 2013, or the national media coverage of the Soma mining accident in May 2014.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr3aikx2DsI. Accessed: October 9, 2016.

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Özhan Koçak, D. (2020). Collective Memory and Digital Practices of Remembrance. In: Friese, H., Nolden, M., Rebane, G., Schreiter, M. (eds) Handbuch Soziale Praktiken und Digitale Alltagswelten. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-08357-1_36

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