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Digital commemorating and memorials: performing the urban and online sphere

Author(s): Liosi, Marianna

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In this paper, I will investigate the digital sphere as a part of the public sphere. Within this framework, I will explore forms of permanent and ephemeral commemoration that take place in the urban environment and in the digital realm, and, in particular, how these dialogue between the online and offline domains. Questioning the permanence of memorials and their relationship with time and space, I will present as a case study “Initiative 19. Februar Hanau”, which was founded in the aftermath of the racist attack that occurred in February 2020 in Hanau, Germany. The initiative operates online via social networks and a website, as well as in a widespread series of events, including recent exhibitions, taking place in different cities across the country. I will question how the digital shapes and affects the act of commemorating online and offline. Analyzing to what extent digital commemoration can be interpreted as an urban and potentially activist practice, I will also reflect upon the role played by the so-called expanded spectator in this process.

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Liosi, Marianna: Digital commemorating and memorials: performing the urban and online sphere. In: MAP - Media | Archive | Performance, Jg. 13 (2023), Nr. 1, S. 1. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/22303.
@ARTICLE{Liosi2023,
 author = {Liosi, Marianna},
 title = {Digital commemorating and memorials: performing the urban and online sphere},
 year = 2023,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/22303}",
 volume = 13,
 address = {Leipzig},
 journal = {MAP - Media | Archive | Performance},
 number = 1,
 pages = {1--},
}
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