Negotiating the past in hyperconnected memory cultures: Post-Soviet nostalgia and national identity in Russian online communities
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Negotiating the past in hyperconnected memory cultures : Post-Soviet nostalgia and national identity in Russian online communities. / Kalinina, Ekaterina; Menke, Manuel.
In: International Journal of Media Cultural Politics, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2016, p. 59-74.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Negotiating the past in hyperconnected memory cultures
T2 - Post-Soviet nostalgia and national identity in Russian online communities
AU - Kalinina, Ekaterina
AU - Menke, Manuel
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This article presents an empirical analysis and theoretical reflections on the negotiation of memories in hyperconnected memory cultures. In order to describe the conditions of memory negotiation, we suggest using the notion of ‘hyperconnected memories’, which refers to the mediatization of memory in a nexus of contingent forms of communication. By conducting a critical discourse analysis (CDA), we show how the Soviet past is negotiated in contemporary Russia and analyse how national identity is discursively constructed alongside official narratives and individual memories. We argue that an important element in this process is nostalgia, which motivates people to join mnemonic online communities but also functions as an intermediary between cultural memory and national identity by making history a personal, sentimental matter. However, we will also demonstrate that the negotiation of official history and individual memory in mnemonic online communities does not automatically lead to emancipation from state-propagated narratives.
AB - This article presents an empirical analysis and theoretical reflections on the negotiation of memories in hyperconnected memory cultures. In order to describe the conditions of memory negotiation, we suggest using the notion of ‘hyperconnected memories’, which refers to the mediatization of memory in a nexus of contingent forms of communication. By conducting a critical discourse analysis (CDA), we show how the Soviet past is negotiated in contemporary Russia and analyse how national identity is discursively constructed alongside official narratives and individual memories. We argue that an important element in this process is nostalgia, which motivates people to join mnemonic online communities but also functions as an intermediary between cultural memory and national identity by making history a personal, sentimental matter. However, we will also demonstrate that the negotiation of official history and individual memory in mnemonic online communities does not automatically lead to emancipation from state-propagated narratives.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Russia
KW - discourse analysis
KW - hyperconnected
KW - mediatization
KW - memory
KW - nostalgia
KW - Memory Culture
U2 - 10.1386/macp.12.1.59_1
DO - 10.1386/macp.12.1.59_1
M3 - Journal article
VL - 12
SP - 59
EP - 74
JO - International Journal of Media Cultural Politics
JF - International Journal of Media Cultural Politics
IS - 1
ER -
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