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A few considerations on strategies of remembrance using the world wide web: fragments of 1944
A few considerations on strategies of remembrance using the world wide web: fragments of 1944

Author(s): Dan Alexandru Savoaia
Subject(s): Media studies, Local History / Microhistory, Social history, Theory of Communication, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Universitatea »Dunarea de Jos« din Galati -Facultatea de Istorie, Teologie și Filosofie
Keywords: 1944; commemoration; public history; World Wide Web;digital storytelling;

Summary/Abstract: In a world where the position of historians is increasingly more complex to delineate and characterize, the World Wide Web represents a medium where history and histories are being written, restored or interpreted on a daily basis. Faced with the tremendousness of this space and their intrinsic liability to infinite obliviousness, events and places of the past are still waiting to be uncovered. But how can one draw the attention to history and bring the 'voices' of the people into the digital age whilst using community-created content in a coherent manner? Given this framework, it is the aim of my paper to analyze two projects that aspire at engaging people with history: 'Yellow-star house project' and 'A mate from the past. 1944 LIVE'. My analysis is based on the interpretative structure proposed by Suzanna K. Conrad, according to which digital stories have multiple purposes. While referring to the projects' context, audience and message, the current contribution focuses on two aspects, namely outreach-activism and the practice of digital storytelling as a way of archiving history.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 191-199
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English