Discussing Wartime Collaboration in a Transnational Digital Space: The Framing of the UPA and the Latvian Legion in Wikipedia

Kaprāns, Mārtiņš; Makhortykh, Mykola (2018). Discussing Wartime Collaboration in a Transnational Digital Space: The Framing of the UPA and the Latvian Legion in Wikipedia. In: Grinchenko, Gelinada; Narvselius, Eleonora (eds.) Formulas of betrayal: Traitors, collaborators and deserters in contemporary European politics of memory (pp. 169-195). Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-319-66496-5_7

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Mārtiņš Kaprāns and Mykola Makhortykh examine how memory wars and memory truces occur in a transnational space of digital media. Examining how the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the Latvian Legion are represented on Wikipedia, the chapter discusses interactions between digital technology and the contentious memory of collaboration. To this end, it investigates the different framing strategies used to represent wartime memories in Wikipedia, the ways these strategies are developed by local editors’ communities, and the reception of Wikipedia’s representations of the past by national and transnational audiences. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the different forms of consensus used in Wikipedia for dealing with contentious past as well as the promises and dangers of using digital media for transnational history writing.

Item Type:

Book Section (Book Chapter)

Division/Institute:

03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Institute of Communication and Media Studies (ICMB)

UniBE Contributor:

Makhortykh, Mykola

Subjects:

000 Computer science, knowledge & systems
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology
900 History
900 History > 940 History of Europe

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan

Language:

English

Submitter:

Mykola Makhortykh

Date Deposited:

12 Feb 2024 12:29

Last Modified:

12 Feb 2024 12:29

Publisher DOI:

10.1007/978-3-319-66496-5_7

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Wikipedia, Second World War, memory, collaboration, UPA, Latvian Legion, representation

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/192774

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/192774

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