Collective memory is a
concept that is usually associated with the past, on the other hand new media
are considered to be innovative and future orientated. Although it may seem
that these two phenomenons have not much in common, we can actually find a high
level of interdependency between them. New media, together with mass media,
represent the world around us, they are involved in the process of constructing
and structuring social reality and are therefore one of the important sources
of collective memory. The aim of this essay is to emphasise how the rise of new
media changed some of the aspects of collective memory and its creation process
as well as to suggest what this transformation can mean for social groups and
their identity formation. To provide a theoretical grounding, the key but
vaguely used term new media is going
to be defined as well as the concept of collective
memory.
References
DONK, André. (2009). The Digitization of Memory:
Blessing or Curse? A Communication Science Perspective. Massachusetts Institute of Technology [online]. Available at <http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit6/papers/Donk.pdf>.
HALBWACHS,
Maurice. (2009). Kolektvní paměť.
Praha: SLON. ISBN 978-80-7419-016-2
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