Networking the Past: Memory Cultures of New Media Ecology

• Main Authors: Zlatan Delić, Mirza Mahmutović
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Center for Philosophy of Media and Media Research 2015-09-01
• Series: In Medias Res
• Subjects: new media ecology; memory cultures; critical digital studies; sociology of information society; post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Online Access: http://www.centar-fm.org/inmediasres/images/pdf/7/Z.%20Delic%20i%20M.%20Mahmutovic,%20Umrezavanje%20proslosti%20-%20memorijske%20kulture%20novomedijske%20ekologije.pdf

In this paper we want to develop an interdisciplinary framework for a critical review of traditional theories of meaning, as well as the status, discourses, forms and practi-ces of memory (and forgetting) in digitally mediated cultures. We propose the phro-nesis approach to the analysis of fluid field of media/communication studies. We pose following question: how dynamics of new communication ecology conditions, institutionalizes and transform the practices of social construction of the past within post-Dayton BH context. With the function of forming an alternative understanding of that context, we undertake some sort of mind experiment. We also use methodo-logical procedures from critical digital studies and findings from sociology of info-rmation society and cyberculture.