TY - JOUR
T1 - Between archive and participation
T2 - Public memory in a digital age
AU - Haskins, Ekaterina
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - In sizing up the notion of public memory, rhetoricians would be remiss not to consider the increasing influence of new media on today’s remembrance culture. This article addresses memorial functions of the internet in light of recent scholarly debates about virtues and drawbacks of modern “archival memory” as well as the paradoxical link between the contemporary public obsession with memory and the acceleration of amnesia. To explore the strengths and limitations of the internet as a vehicle of collecting, preserving, and displaying traces of the past, the article examines The September 11 Digital Archive, a comprehensive online effort to document public involvement in recording and commemorating the tragedy of 11 September, 2001.
AB - In sizing up the notion of public memory, rhetoricians would be remiss not to consider the increasing influence of new media on today’s remembrance culture. This article addresses memorial functions of the internet in light of recent scholarly debates about virtues and drawbacks of modern “archival memory” as well as the paradoxical link between the contemporary public obsession with memory and the acceleration of amnesia. To explore the strengths and limitations of the internet as a vehicle of collecting, preserving, and displaying traces of the past, the article examines The September 11 Digital Archive, a comprehensive online effort to document public involvement in recording and commemorating the tragedy of 11 September, 2001.
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U2 - 10.1080/02773940601086794
DO - 10.1080/02773940601086794
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79951685125
VL - 37
SP - 401
EP - 422
JO - RSQ-Rhetoric Society Quarterly
JF - RSQ-Rhetoric Society Quarterly
SN - 0277-3945
IS - 4
ER -