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Convegno ESA - Culture and Making worlds - 7th-9th october 2010 - Bocconi University
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Memory of the events and events of the memory: how the Net can change our way of
constructing collective memory
Alessandra MicalizziIULM University – Communication dept.
Culture and the Making of the Worlds3° ESA mid-term conference – Bocconi University
7th-9th October 2010
Collective memory in Post-orality Age
Device of the memory (Sciolla,2005)
Objectivation of the History
Social Practice (Halbwachs, 1950)
narratives
storage
socialization
processing
Collective memory in Post-orality Age
Manipulating narratives
Role of the media
Circulating narratives
Producing narratives
About:
Public past The Past for the publics (audience)
Collective memory in Post-orality Age
«the Net is a processing space of the networked public opinion, where the cultural citizenship experiences with a personal reflexivity, above all, by conversational dynamics» (Boccia Artieri, 2010)
Internet as:
Narrative technology (Walzer, 2000:2002)
New public arena
Technological memory device (?)
Collective memory of traumatic events
Narratives about traumatic events
Negotiation of confirmative memory (Namer, 1994)
Opportunity to processing and coping trauma
The first coin of exchange in online conversation
The earthquake in Abruzzi: an empirical research
could the Net can be considered as a social and anthropological environment where negotiating the collective memory and where processing the trauma?
Characteristics of digital narratives
Internet websites that hosted the messages
The net-authors of the postsThe main themes proposed
The earthquake in Abruzzi: an empirical research
First step: explorative research on the Net by some keywords
Second step: qualitative content analysis of posts published on the first 5 groups opened on Facebook about the earthquake
Third step: visual analysis of 500 images about the earthquake used as profile photo on Facebook's groups.
Fourth step: e-mail interviews with users
The earthquake in Abruzzi: the results
Institutional space
participated space
Typologies of website
Autonomous space
The earthquake in Abruzzi: the results
Extreme public sphere
Peer to peer public sphere
Semi-public sphere
The earthquake in Abruzzi: the results
The authors:
Im-mediated (unmediated) witness: people that “attend” the earthquake by media
The victims: people directly involved
The direct witness: journalists, rescuers, abruzzi’s people less involved
The earthquake in Abruzzi: the results
• theme:
Reports: news and neutral reconstruction
Personal experiences: Anecdote Emotion Remembrance
Technical information: about the earthquake
The earthquake in Abruzzi: an empirical research
Do we face with collective memory?
The earthquake in Abruzzi: contextual aspects of paritcipation
First hours after the earthquake
Collective participation
anniversary New shakes
time
The earthquake in Abruzzi: the phases of the processing of collective memory
1.Sedimentation of narratives
2. Processing memory
3. Construction of a Story
4. The risk of oblivious
The earthquake in Abruzzi: an example of digital collective memory
Confirmative memory
The earthquake in Abruzzi: the phases of the processing of collective memory
Chrono-digital narratives:
«micro-fragments that don’t produce a proper ordered narration, but they mix each others giving back a plural and polyedral image, which complexity is very close to the reality, even if the image doesn’t coincides with it»
First level narrative material Source of the collective memory Without order and selection
The earthquake in Abruzzi: the phases of the processing of collective memory
Rememoration seed (Halbwachs, 1950):
The selective process acted by the surfer through the on-line research that is at the same time unique and contingent
The earthquake in Abruzzi: the risk of oblivious
The chrono-digital narratives are:
Searchable and persistent (boyd, 2007)
But at the same time
Ephemeral under the constant risk of oblivious
«We face with a culture that is at the same tima eternal and ephemeral» (Catells, 2000)