Pereajalugu internetiajastul: diasporaa-genealoogia ja jätkuv ajalookirjutusprotsess

Heimo, Anne

doi:10.7592/mt2014.56.heimo

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“…In addition to the importance for self-making, self-exploration and self-understanding, this emergent interest in one's own roots has been seen to spring from the need to personalise and democratise history (Ashton & Hamilton 2010: 27-28;Kramer 2011). This turn can be well observed on the Internet (see Heimo 2014). It has never been as easy as today to access historical records in archives, both material and digital, or to discuss your mutual heritage with people who you might have met only virtually over the Internet.…”

Section: Family Mattersmentioning

confidence: 99%

The 1918 Finnish Civil War Revisited: The Digital Aftermath

Heimo¹

2014

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Today heritage sites not only preserve the memory of grandiose moments of history, but also include the darker ones, which were previously either preferably forgotten or went unrecognised. In Finnish history, it is difficult to find a more painful example of these "sites of pain and shame" than the 1918 Civil War. This article examines the different ways that the 1918 Finnish Civil War is commemorated and represented on the Internet today, on both private and institutional websites as well as in social media, from the perspective of participatory history culture and vernacular authority. People have always shared information concerning the past with each other, but the way that this can be observed on the Internet today is novel. Only after the rise of new technology, the Internet and especially Web 2.0, people have had the possibility to share their experiences and interpretations side by side with history professionals to this degree. In relation to memory and heritage politics, this means that we need to re-examine the boundaries between private and public memory and official and unofficial heritage, and recognise new forms of collaboration between audiences and institutions.

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Section: Family Mattersmentioning

confidence: 99%