When Monument Battles Go Digital: Russian–Ukrainian Conflicts over Material Heritage on Telegram

IF 5.5 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-04-30 DOI:10.1177/20563051241242788

Anastasiya Pshenychnykh, Alena Pfoser, Sabina Mihelj

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Abstract

In the context of increasing conflicts over material heritage around the world, this article examines the role digital media play in battles over monuments. The rise of digital media brought significant changes to the cultural dynamics of heritage conflicts, which have not been adequately addressed in existing literature. Bringing together work on monuments, (digital) memory conflicts, and digital activism, we identify three key dimensions of monument battles in which the impact of digital media is most clearly visible: (a) participation, democratization, and deterritorialization; (b) reframing and contestation; and (c) mobilization and the online-offline movement of heritage battles. We illustrate these arguments drawing on a critical discourse analysis of monument battles on the messaging application Telegram in the context of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, using a sample of 940 posts from both pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian channels. We demonstrate that despite potentially providing space for alternative memory interpretations, online memory contestations over heritage contributed to the construction of polarized and mutually exclusive worlds.

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当纪念碑之争走向数字化：俄罗斯-乌克兰关于电报上物质遗产的冲突

在世界各地物质遗产冲突日益加剧的背景下，本文探讨了数字媒体在古迹争夺战中发挥的作用。数字媒体的崛起给遗产冲突的文化动态带来了重大变化，而现有文献并未对此进行充分论述。通过对古迹、（数字）记忆冲突和数字行动主义的研究，我们确定了古迹争夺战中数字媒体影响最明显的三个关键方面：(a) 参与、民主化和去地域化；(b) 重构和争议；(c) 动员和遗产争夺战的线上线下运动。在俄罗斯全面入侵乌克兰的背景下，我们利用亲乌克兰和亲俄罗斯频道的 940 个帖子样本，对信息应用 Telegram 上的纪念碑之战进行了批判性话语分析，以此来说明这些论点。我们的研究表明，尽管有可能为其他记忆解释提供空间，但有关遗产的在线记忆争夺却促成了两极分化和相互排斥的世界的构建。

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Social Media + Society COMMUNICATION-

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9.20

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3.80%

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111

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12 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Media + Society is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal that focuses on the socio-cultural, political, psychological, historical, economic, legal and policy dimensions of social media in societies past, contemporary and future. We publish interdisciplinary work that draws from the social sciences, humanities and computational social sciences, reaches out to the arts and natural sciences, and we endorse mixed methods and methodologies. The journal is open to a diversity of theoretic paradigms and methodologies. The editorial vision of Social Media + Society draws inspiration from research on social media to outline a field of study poised to reflexively grow as social technologies evolve. We foster the open access of sharing of research on the social properties of media, as they manifest themselves through the uses people make of networked platforms past and present, digital and non. The journal presents a collaborative, open, and shared space, dedicated exclusively to the study of social media and their implications for societies. It facilitates state-of-the-art research on cutting-edge trends and allows scholars to focus and track trends specific to this field of study.