Year: 2021
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Narratives are one of the means of transmitting the cultural memory of the city, with the help of which images of the past are structured and the processes of the present are explained. The article is devoted to the analysis of ways to represent the narratives of the cultural memory of the city in the digital era, due to the multifactorial influence of digitalization on various aspects of social and cultural life. In the digital era, the processes of transmitting symbolic information about the city acquire a qualitatively new effect, since the trends of digitalization of society increase the range of tools and trajectories for the representation of urban narratives that construct the cultural memory of the city. The author, adhering to a communicative approach, demonstrates that plot texts about the city's past are now reproduced in digital communication, assuming the presence of a virtual source of narrative posted on the Internet, including social communities. In addition, new media often become a digital intermediary in the transmission of urban narrative, as the most important mediator of digital communication on the Internet. The interactive nature of the representation of plot texts about the city's past implies the presence of active users of digital content who create and replicate memorable information about the city. The knowledge of how narratives about the city's past are represented in digital communication can be used in applied research aimed at studying the prediction and formation of the cultural memory of the city.
Author: Natalya G. Fedotova
Institution: Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4200217045