DIGITAL TRAUMA

Studying how the past is remembered: towards computational history through large scale text mining

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«History helps us understand the present and even to predict the future to certain extent. Given the huge amount of data about the past, we believe computer science will play an increasingly important role in historical studies, with computational history becoming an emerging interdisciplinary field of research. We attempt to study how the past is remembered through large scale text mining. We achieve this by first collecting a large dataset of news articles about different countries and analyzing the data using computational and statistical tools. We show that analysis of references to the past in news articles allows us to gain a lot of insight into the collective memories and societal views of different countries. Our work demonstrates how various computational tools can assist us in studying history by revealing interesting topics and hidden correlations. Our ultimate objective is to enhance history writing and evaluation with the help of algorithmic support».

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2063755

Web Wars: Digital Diasporas and the Language of Memory in Russia & Ukraine

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Web Wars: Digital Diasporas and the Language of Memory in Russia & Ukraine is a three-year (2010-’13) Bergen-based research project. It is part of the collaborative HERA-funded project Memory at War: Cultural Dynamics in Russia, Poland & Ukraine. Led by Dr Alexander Etkind (Cambridge University), this project zeroes in on the ongoing memory wars between Russia, Ukraine, and Poland – nations where political conflicts take the shape of heated debates about the recent past.

http://www.web-wars.org/

 

RESEARCH QUESTION. JUNE 2015

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DIGITAL TRAUMA (AND OTHER DIGITAL MEMORY DISORDERS)

DIGITAL TRAUMA (AND OTHER DIGITAL MEMORY DISORDERS)

DIGITAL TRAUMA (AND OTHER DIGITAL MEMORY DISORDERS)

DIGITAL TRAUMA (AND OTHER DIGITAL MEMORY DISORDERS)

What are the political, social and individual consequences of having a Digital Memory that is capable of “remembering” all we want?.

DIGITAL TRAUMA (AND OTHER DIGITAL MEMORY DISORDERS)

I want to research how the ubiquity and pervasive nature of digital technology is reshaping our view of our past, and therefore our identity. I wonder what are the effects of the shift from an analog to a digital construction of cultural memory and what the implications of those effects are.

DIGITAL TRAUMA (AND OTHER DIGITAL MEMORY DISORDERS)

Digital trauma in post-conflict societies

If we can access our past at any given moment, to what extent can we get rid of it and look ahead? What consequences do the access to a digital memory (including access to the words, images and sounds of the horrors of the past) have for post-conflict societies? Can a digital memory become a powerful tool to ignite more profound ethnic hate, violence and war?

Digital Funes, or the memory that cant forget.

Cameras and data storage is getting so small and cheap that documenting everything with photos and film has become the default position. But what are the consequences of this high documentation of our daily life on our society?

Digital Amnesia and the black box

What are the consequences of this perfect external memory which allows us to have such a clear recollection of our autobiographical memory? How can this high documentation contribute to individual traumas?. How does this “perfect” external memory affect and shape our internal memories? In which measure can digital memory delete our real memories and create a kind of “digital amnesia”?.

DIGITAL TRAUMA

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SYNOPSIS:

If we can access our past at any given moment, to what extent can we get rid of it and look ahead? What consequences do the access to a digital memory (including access to the words, images and sounds of the horrors of the past) have for post-conflict societies? Can a digital memory become a powerful tool to ignite more profound ethnic hate, violence and war?.

I´m interested in how the ubiquity and pervasive nature of digital technology is reshaping our view of our past, and therefore our identity. I wonder what are the effects of the shift from analog to digital on the construction of cultural memory and what are the implications of those effects?.

Method: All the images and sounds are the combination of the result from typing the words in Google search box.

I Recommend to watch this video in full screen mode with the volume very high and headphones to get the inmersive atmosphere. Don´t forget HD button on.

 

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