Abstract
The development of participatory culture on the internet over the last 15 years has challenged conceptualizations of many social phenomena, including society’s work with the past. Acknowledging efforts by José van Dijck, Andrew Hoskins, and others to accommodate the conceptual architecture of shared remembering to the Web 2.0 reality, the field of memory studies still remains undertheorized. Media Archaeologies, Micro-Archives and Storytelling: Re-Presencing the Past by Martin Pogačar intends to fill the conceptual void by exploring grassroots memory practices on the internet. Along with exploring digital memory, the book focuses on how online remembrance activities redefine or, in Pogačar’s words, represence the Yugoslav past. DOI: 10.25285/2078-1938-2018-10-1-139-142
Highlights
The book rests on multimodal discourse analysis
The qualitative material is collected from blogs, Facebook pages, and YouTube videos
Pogačar does not explain why he has selected these digital platforms in particular and why he has excluded from his analysis such social networking sites as Wikipedia and Twitter that are important sites of media archaeology and micro-archiving
Summary
Such an approach provides complex empirical material that in various ways and at various times has manifested individual memorial activities vis-à-vis the Yugoslav past. Pogačar does not explain why he has selected these digital platforms in particular and why he has excluded from his analysis such social networking sites as Wikipedia and Twitter that are important sites of media archaeology and micro-archiving.
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