Media Memory Practices and Community of Remembrance : Youth Radio DT64

• This chapter considers a current example of an online site for the commemoration of cultural artefacts from the former GDR, the Facebook page DT64 – Das Jugendradio der DDR that is dedicated to a former youth radio station. We analyse the page not so much as an example of persistent Ostalgia, but as an illustration of how media memories are performed in our digital age entangling individual and collective memories. The chapter discusses the changing nature of media memories in the context of an altered media ecology from a media and communications perspective by looking at questions of how users experience the performance of media memories online in relation to a given infrastructure that both allows and constraints specific media-related practices.

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Media and Communications (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Kritisk kulturteori

Critical and Cultural Theory

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