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Memory, Conflict & Post-Socialist Media: Old Stories, New Questions
Ellen Rutten, UvA/EUI 2020
New Histories of Public Spheres and Public Actions
EUI / UoA lecture series
Lecture 2 in the series
pre-announcement
Mischa Gabowitsch, Berlin/Potsdam
09.12, 5pm: public spheres, protests
Belarus, grassroots movements
Memory, Conflict & Post-Socialist Media: Old Stories, New Questions
Ellen Rutten, UvA/EUI 2020
Yale University Press
2017
Protest Appeals (in the making)
U of Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Van Abbemuseum
Web Wars: 2010-2013 (website no longer active)
Screenshot 1: still from the winning clip of RuTube’s 2011
‘Congratulate Granddaddy with Victory Day!’ contest
Screenshot 2: responses to a blog post on Victory-Day
irregularities in Lviv (on ru-indeec.livejournal.com)
Screenshot 3: responses to a
YouTube clip on the same incidents
“Digital memory” as scholarly field
Joanne Garde-Hansen, Andrew Hoskins,
Anna Reading (eds.),
Save As… Digital Memories. Palgrave
MacMillan 2009.
Web Wars: 2010-2013
Memory at War (2010-2013)
HERA webpage
Web Wars: Team
Web Wars: book
Memory, Conflict & Post-Socialist Media: Old Stories, New Questions
Ellen Rutten, UvA/EUI 2020
“We cannot discuss personal,
generational, or public memory
separately from the enormous
influence of the new media as carriers
of all forms of memory.”
Andreas Huyssen, Present Pasts:
Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of
Memory. Stanford UP 2003
C.M. is “always shared with the help
of symbolic artefacts that mediate
between individuals and, in the
process, create communality across
both time and space.”
Astrid Erll, Ann Rigney (eds.) in
Mediation, Remediation & the
Dynamics of Cultural Memory.
De Gruyter 2009.
Western bias in early digital-memory studies: exceptions
World Map of Social Networks, d.d. December 2010
Internet penetration percentages in 2012: Russia 47.7%
(www.internetworldstats.com)
Internet penetration percentages in 2012: Ukraine 34.1%
(screengrab from www.internetworldstats.com)
Comscore stats on worldwide social-media activity:
Russians most active in ’09 & ’10 (www.comscore.com)
Comscore stats on worldwide social-media activity:
Russians most active in ’09 & ’10 (www.comscore.com)
Problematic assumption 1: New media
remember what users want to forget
Solution: forgetting > installing
expiration dates
RuTube/‘Congratulate Grandaddy…’ – blog comments on victory-day Lviv riots
– YouTube comments on the riots
Red-Square Victory-day parade footage
RuTube/‘Congratulate Grandaddy…’ – blog comments on victory-day Lviv riots
– YouTube comments on the riots
Blog comments Lviv incidents: Aleksandr Antonov
Problematic assumption 1: New media
remember what users want to forget
Solution: forgetting > installing
expiration dates
Problematic assumption 2: “If …
citizens could be viewed as ‘tourists of
history’ [cf Marita Sturken 2007] who
experience the past ‘through
consumerism, media images, souvenirs,
popular culture, and museum and
architectural reenactments’ … then
surely digital memories would only fuel
the connection between memory and
consumerism?”
Save As… 6
Commodification Soviet history – military souvenirs
Online Soviet commodification (from 20th.su):
‘Museum “20th Century.” We Are from the USSR’
aloxtr’s comment & ‘web wars’
Memory, Conflict & Post-Socialist Media: Old Stories, New Questions
Ellen Rutten, UvA/EUI 2020
new social-media favorites: TikTok, Instagram
(sources: Meduza 04.07.2020, statista.com 21.08.2020)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGDGiwkjQJ
I/?igshid=js0i89hjg5y5
new social-media favorites: TikTok, Instagram
(sources: Meduza 04.07.2020, statista.com 21.08.2020)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGDGiwkjQJ
I/?igshid=js0i89hjg5y5
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGDGiwkjQJ
I/?igshid=js0i89hjg5y5
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGhGn2RHZ
2T/?igshid=yfj1tnl2jwd0
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGDGiwkjQJ
I/?igshid=js0i89hjg5y5
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGhGn2RHZ
2T/?igshid=yfj1tnl2jwd0
Stills from @comradeVasily account / TikTok
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGDGiwkjQJ
I/?igshid=js0i89hjg5y5
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGhGn2RHZ
2T/?igshid=yfj1tnl2jwd0
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGDGiwkjQJ
I/?igshid=js0i89hjg5y5
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGhGn2RHZ
2T/?igshid=yfj1tnl2jwd0
Hashtag Politics; excerpt The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods;
‘Infrastructuralization of Tik Tok’ in Media, Culture & Society (2020)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGDGiwkjQJ
I/?igshid=js0i89hjg5y5
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGDGiwkjQJ
I/?igshid=js0i89hjg5y5
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGhGn2RHZ
2T/?igshid=yfj1tnl2jwd0
Hashtag Politics; excerpt The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods;
‘Infrastructuralization of Tik Tok’ in Media, Culture & Society (2020)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGDGiwkjQJ
I/?igshid=js0i89hjg5y5
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGhGn2RHZ
2T/?igshid=yfj1tnl2jwd0
