scholarly journals Media memory in the digital world

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 01014
Author(s):  
Denis Artamonov ◽  
Marina Volovikova ◽  
Sophia Tikhonova
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Media Philosophy ◽  
Memory Characteristic

The article analyses how historical memory is being formed in the modern digital realm. The authors show the emergence of a new form of historical memory, characteristic of the digital era, which we call "media memory". Using the methodology historical epistemology, media philosophy and memory studies, the authors demonstrate the change in production and replication of knowledge about the past due to the spread of digital media. The distinctive features of "media memory" are: massive non-professional production of historical content, democratic character, speed, subjectivity and emotional intensity. These features are associated with the combination of prosuming and crowdsourcing, which increase the activity of history lovers and non-professional volunteers in social media. Considering the largest historical digital projects, which have brought together the efforts of millions of history lovers, the article comes to the conclusion that academic historians are losing the monopoly on the production of historical knowledge, while the latter is being turned into digital form, with the widespread participation of ordinary people in the production of such content.

scholarly journals Emerging Gender, Media and Technology Scholarship in Africa: Opportunities and Conundrums in African Women’s Navigating Digital Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey Gadzekpo ◽  
Paula Gardner ◽  
H. Leslie Steeves
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Essential Services ◽  
The World ◽  
Optimistic Picture ◽  
Media And Technology

Over the past decade and earlier, much of the academic and grey literature has painted an optimistic picture of rapidly increasing access and growth of digital technologies in Africa. Industry statistics put internet penetration in Africa close to 40 percent and growing, even though the continent still lags behind the world average of Internet users (Internet World Statistics, June 2019). Some estimates predict that by 2025 the sub-continent will add 167 million mobile subscribers to its existing 456 million (GSMA Report, 2019). Mobile devices, especially, have assumed centrality in the lives of ordinary people and provide prospects for Africa to leapfrog into the modern digital world. Smart phones are enabling millions of Africans to share news and information more easily and to tap into all kinds of essential services, much like elsewhere in the world.

scholarly journals Humor in Historical Memory: from an Anecdote and Caricature to an Internet Meme

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-237
Author(s):  
Denis S. Artamonov
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Visual Text ◽  
The Media

The article is devoted to the study of the role of anecdotes, caricatures and Internet memes in the construction of historical memory. The memory of the past implies emotional content, the expression of which is often humor. The author views an anecdote as a component of oral history and a communication phenomenon of the pre-digital era, in which the representation of ideas about the past was humorous. A historical anecdote, being originally a kind of didactic historiography, has been transformed into a tool for transmitting an informal interpretation of history, and once in the digital media environment, it has lost its former meaning. Mass media, with the help of a caricature representing history in a humorous way, have visualized the images of the past, setting certain evaluative frameworks of historical and political events. Being an element of traditional media as well as a work of art, caricature encouraged the formation of historical memory along with other artistic genres. In the digital age, it, like a historical anecdote, has given way to Internet memes in the media sphere. The author considers Internet memes to be the phenomena of digital culture, defining them as a kind of a polymodal, metaphorical, often ironic, humorous utterance that is spread in the media environment. A historical Internet meme, combining the images of popular culture and collective memory in a visual text format, has a decisive influence on the perception of historical events and personalities by social media audiences. With the help of Internet memes a great number of Internet users create their own versions of the interpretation of history in a humorous form, thus reproducing the collectively shared mythologized ideas about the past.

scholarly journals Approaching the past: a tangled interplay of memory, political choices and historical science. With examples from the Nordic and Baltic countries and Romania

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-68
Author(s):  
Jardar Seim
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
The Past ◽  
Baltic Countries ◽  
Political Choices ◽  
Political Conditions

A discussion of topics connected with “historical memory” and “politics of memory” presupposes that we consider how and why we are approaching the past. In this paper I shall point to some ways the past is being approached by individuals, social groups and political authorities – and some reasons for such approaches. But I shall also consider the opposite choice, that of not wanting to get closer to the past, preferring instead to keep a safe distance or even to ignore it, at least painful parts of it. Memories in different forms are important in our approaches to the past. The same is true for scientific history. The interplay between memory and historical science is complicated in itself. The existence of political guidance or explicit political provisions concerning the past makes it even more complicated to understand how our relations with the past are shaped and what their functions are in a given society. In my opinion, it is impossible to generalize about such problems. But comparisons may be fruitful, for instance presentations of wars in school textbooks from different countries, or how succeeding political regimes in one country try to charge the urban landscape with a new (or old) political meaning that legitimizes the present regime or demonize another one, by changing street names, erecting or destroying monuments etc. National anthems are another field that is suited for meaningful comparisons. And even communal or personal memories that are studied without a comparison or generalization in mind may provide ideas and perspectives for dealing with quite different memories under other political conditions. Finally, the role of the presumed scientific historian ought to be examined a little. Is he or she just a rational and neutral judge of the past – compared to ordinary people with undocumented and emotional memories, or to politicians with ideological motives for approaching the past?

The Role of Parents for Developing Digital Literacy of 0-5 Year Olds

2018 ◽  
pp. 104-113
Author(s):  
Linda Daniela ◽  
Arta Rudolfa
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Parental Competence ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Role Of Parents ◽  
Relationship Of

The digitalization of the world has brought with it changes in the mutual relationship of parents and children, upbringing traditions, and challenged the parents' role. Parents' attitudes towards the digital world could be described as “fear and fascination,” where a fraction treats the possibilities provided by the digital environment with uncritical adoration, while another fraction is convinced that the digital environment poses a variety of risks, which is why children should be deterred from the use of digital media for as long as possible. None of the approaches is productive in helping the development and growth of children born in the digitalization era. That is why an objective for the study was set out – to identify parents' competence in promoting children's digital literacy in order to seek solutions and make recommendations for parents to promote children's digital literacy. The chapter summarizes the results of a part of an ongoing study of parental competence in raising kids of the digital era.

scholarly journals Making to Learn. The Pedagogical Implications of Making in a Digital Binary World

2021 ◽  
pp. 81-85
Author(s):  
Maria Ranieri
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Collaborative Problem Solving ◽  
Collaborative Problem ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Common Practices ◽  
Intellectual Activities ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractMaking has always been at the center of pedagogical reflection, as testified by the emphasis on the principle of learning by doing. Today, digital media and technologies provide more opportunities for expanding these concepts, given their potential to facilitate media production and creation. However, common practices in media-making in schools tend merely to emphasize the technical aspects—including the technical procedural skills, the creation of a product or the use of specific software—while overlooking the pedagogical dimensions associated with media-making processes. A reappraisal of the educational dimensions of making in the digital era may come from a reconceptualization of the relationship between manual and intellectual activities. Through the lens of Sennett’s understanding of craftsmanship, this chapter first explores the ways making and thinking can be set out in a single process that characterizes the human condition. Second, it explains how the Open Source Movement’s approach to software design is a sort of “digital craftsmanship” based on collaborative problem-solving, one that can inspire a renewed vision of the learning by doing principle for the digital world. The chapter concludes with several considerations on the implications of such an approach for the future of schools.

scholarly journals Paradigma Pendidikan Anak dalam Keluarga di Era Digital (Perspektif Pendidikan Islam)

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (01) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Tian Wahyudi
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Present Condition ◽  
Family Education ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The Family ◽  
Child Education ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Positive Content

This article discusses the paradigm of child education in the family in the Digital Age in the perspective of Islamic education. Digital technology as the main feature of the digital era has two different sides, one side provides benefits, on the other hand causes damage. The benefits include ease of various aspects of the information needed, the presence of a variety of educational media and other positive content. Whereas the damage includes the strengthening of instant culture, the ease of children to access various inappropriate content, the rise of various criminalization in cyberspace etc. The paradigm of family education built in the digital era should pay attention to the reality of the present condition. This refers to the reality of the current generation that is very close to the digital world. Therefore, the educational approach should also be adapted to the conditions of children in this era. The important efforts that parents can make towards their children's education in the family are: (1) able to understand the potential and development of children; (2) able to understand the educational content that must be transmitted to their children; (3) able to recognize digital media both aspects of benefits and negative impacts; (4) able to use digital media as a means of education.

scholarly journals Pengajaran dan Pembelajaran di Era Digital

1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (01) ◽  
pp. 117-129
Author(s):  
Nur Afif
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Design Learning ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Changing Times ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Flow Of Information

This article will explore how the dynamics of teaching and learning in the Digital Age. This study contributes to the discussion on how education should position itself in changing times, including in facing the digital age. Through library research, researchers found several important aspects of teaching and learning in the digital era, namely learning in the digital era has different characteristics from student learning in the past, the generation in this era are those who have digital native characters. Students at this time are born, grow and grow in direct contact with the digital world, so that the flow of information obtained will be different from previous students. Therefore, the teacher as a partner in learning must be able to design learning activities so that students get more information than the time provided.

scholarly journals Historical memory: schoolchildren and students about the history of Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-82
Author(s):  
Maria A. Podlesnaya ◽  
Gallina V. Soloviova ◽  
Ilona V. Il`ina
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
University Education ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Russian History ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Figure ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
History Of

The article raises the problem of preserving national identity in the context of hybridisation / universalisation of the values ​​of the Russian youth. In this regard, the concept of "historical memory" is applied to the data of two studies carried out in schools and five universities (both at the capital and regional level). The purpose of the article is to assess the content and vector of historical knowledge of students about their country, the attitude to this knowledge among young people and adolescents at different educational levels. The process of continuity of school and university education in the national history is considered, the points of breaks are revealed. A general assessment is given on which periods of Russian history retain the connection with the young generations of Russians, and on which ones go into the past, revealing the main narratives of historical memory. The main conclusions are as follows: 1. the continuity and general assessment among schoolchildren and university students is maintained in relation to at least two events in the Russian history - the Great Patriotic War of 1941–45 and the historical figure of Peter I as the first emperor of Russia, who turned the country to the West and made a breakthrough in its modernization; 2. there is a gap in historical memory in relation to events associated with the period of Ancient Rus, a connection with the Soviet past is revealed; schoolchildren even single out the Soviet period as the most interesting and memorable; 3. there are gaps in the continuity of historical knowledge at the level of school and university education, this concerns, for example, such an event as “the annexation of Crimea to Russia in 2014”; 4. among schoolchildren dominates (58%) a group of students who are proud of the country history, whilst there is a group of those who are indifferent to their history or express negative assessments (8%) and have a neutral attitude to the history of Russia (34%), there is a high percentage (76%) of those who believe that there are different events in the history of Russia and it is important to remember the “dark” pages of one´s own history; 5. as a result, we see young people behaving differently depending on the age, who, for some reason, began to doubt their country and are ashamed of its past, but at the same time are ready to participate in the country's transformations.

POLITIC GOES DIGITAL, SO WHAT? A REVIEW ON INTERNET POLITICS

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Irmawan Rahyadi
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
The West ◽  
Digital Platform ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Internet Politics ◽  
Media Platform

This article explores and mobilises the concept of ‘internet politics’ as an analytical entry point for understanding how politics emerge in the digital media world targeted to the public conversation and constituents believe to promote engagement and participation. Understanding political communication to public in digital platform is strategic in a digital era where exposure to political message is inevitable. Some leading academic databases are searched within a methodology of literature review to report a review of studies on internet politics. The result shows that research in this area incline towards utilization of a specifc platform in digital world. We conclude that political communication in the digital world started in the west and followed by non-western researcher. Technological advancement makes possible for people to communicate and gather virtually as in social media platform, thus any digital platform accessible for a substantial number of people is a potential channel for political communication where further research in this area needs to be directed.

EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH WORKS OF CONTEMPORARY SCHOOLCHILDREN AS A SOURCE OF STUDY OF THE HISTORICAL MEMORY OF THE PEOPLE ABOUT THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR OF 1941-1945

2021 ◽  
pp. 74-85
Author(s):  
Zinaida P. Inozemtseva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Youth Research ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Content Specificity ◽  
Formal Recognition

The present work is based on the analysis of the schoolchildren competitive research papers submitted at the All-Russian Youth Vernadsky Conference in the period of time between 2005 and 2020; the article considers the ideas about the 1941–1945 Great Patriotic War of the generation coming into life in the 21st century. The content specificity of the schoolchildren research works devoted to the Great Patriotic War is defined by the fact that the young authors in search of truth seek to objectively comprehend the realities of the past and to ascertain the veracity of the fact. It is worth noting that the heroes of the schoolchildren papers are ordinary people, often without formal recognition, and that is the reason why their documents have not been taken into the archives yet. At the opening of the exhibition “Man and War”, the Chairman of the Russian Historical Society Sergei Naryshkin stressed that the history of the Soviet people’s heroism is transmitted through the frontline letters, photographs, family reminiscences, personal belongings. It is on these sources that young researchers learn the history of the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945. The author of the article concludes that the historical memory of the Great Patriotic War is preserved in the people’s consciousness, and that it is possible to use the youth research as the sources of personal origin to study the issue of historical memory

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