by Ellen Rutten — published in 2010

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Abstract: Digital Diasporas and the Language of Memory in Russia & Ukraine is a three year research project within the collaborative HERA-funded project Memory at War: Cultural Dynamics in Russia, Poland & Ukraine. Led by Dr Alexander Etkind (Cambridge University), this project zeroes in on the ongoing memory wars between Russia, Ukraine, and Poland – nations where political conflicts take the shape of heated debates about the recent past. For Memory at War, five European universities—Cambridge, Helsinki, Tartu, Groningen, and Bergen—cooperate to scrutinize Eastern Europe's memory wars from varying angles. Web Wars is the Bergen pendant, which focuses on their outlines in digital media, and Russian and Ukrainian social media in particular. This submission maps the project design, methods and research objectives.

Academic sector, Political/Regulatory/Legal, Social, Technological, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, diasporas, democracy, social networking, social media