Memory Conflict and New Media

<p>This book examines the online memory wars in post-Soviet states – where political conflicts take the shape of heated debates about the recent past and especially World War II and Soviet socialism. </p><p>To this day former socialist states face the challenge of constructing national identities producing national memories and relating to the Soviet legacy. Their pasts are principally intertwined: changing readings of history in one country generate fierce reactions in others. In this transnational memory war digital media form a pivotal discursive space – one that provides speakers with radically new commemorative tools. </p><p>Uniting contributions by leading scholars in the field<i> Memory Conflict and New Media</i> is the first book-length publication to analyse how new media serve as a site of political and national identity building in post-socialist states. The book also examines how the construction of online identity is irreversibly affected by thinking about the past in this geopolitical domain. By highlighting post-socialist memory’s digital mediations <i>and</i> digital memory’s transcultural scope the volume succeeds in a twofold aim: to deepen and refine both (post-socialist) memory theory and digital-memory studies.</p><p>This book will be of much interest to students of media studies post-Soviet studies Eastern European Politics memory studies and International Relations in general.</p>