Commemorative Media Practices during the Pandemic

O. Hudoshnyk

Abstract


The purpose of the article is to present the latest trends in the preservation of modern pandemic memory discourse on the example of collective media oral history projects.

Research methodology. The methodological basis of the article consists of a general scientific method of analysis of the thematic segment of the modern information space and a method of generalization in understanding the similarity of the presentation of oral historical memories by both journalistic means and multimedia systems.

Results. Active involvement of various commemorative practices in modern everyday life has become widespread, and technological means of their implementation through mobile applications, multimedia platforms and global projects are forcing scientists to look for non-standard approaches to the analysis of these phenomena. The presented research focuses on changes in the traditional journalistic text, which under the influence of the lots of memories, testimonies and life stories increasingly acquires storytelling forms and tends to narrative techniques. The mediatized oral historical discourse is also being transformed and offers more and more innovations in the reproduction of everyday realities through archived life stories; In-depth interviews are being replaced by the practice of ′rapid response collecting′, which to some extent hybridizes the methods of collecting and disseminating information.

Novelty. An interdisciplinary approach to the presentation of oral historical information by media clarifies the methodology of analysis and the definition of ′new normal′ of the modern information space.

Practical meaning. Accounting of the latest methods of collecting, storing and exchanging testimonies and life stories can let us to emphasize the modern communication space and to allow the use of new means of actualization of the gained experience as well as its publication and dissemination processes

Key words: COVID-19, media, pandemic discourse, oral historical information, commemoration.


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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.32840/cpu2219-8741/2021.2(46).5

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