Remembering World War II: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Memory Practices on an Online Forum - Paperback

by Anastasia Glawion (Author)

The book demonstrates an evidence-based approach to online memory practices of World War II. Network analysis is applied to reduce a massive and unreadable dataset of forum texts and user relations. Further, the results are combined with other text analysis methods, such as topic modeling and contrastive stylometric analyses. A sample of discussions from each group is read and categorized. Based on the results, the forum users' memory practices are labelled as empirical, conversational and conservational practices, whereby recent theoretical developments in Memory Studies are considered.

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The book demonstrates an evidence-based approach to online memory practices of World War II. Network analysis is applied to reduce a massive and unreadable dataset of forum texts and user relations. Further, the results are combined with other text analysis methods, such as topic modeling and contrastive stylometric analyses. A sample of discussions from each group is read and categorized. Based on the results, the forum users' memory practices are labelled as empirical, conversational and conservational practices, whereby recent theoretical developments in Memory Studies are considered.
About the author: Anastasia Glawion is a postdoctoral researcher at the LitLab of the German Studies - Digital Literary Studies department at the Institute for Linguistics and Literary Studies (TU Darmstadt).

Author Biography

Anastasia Glawion is a postdoctoral researcher at the LitLab of the German Studies - Digital Literary Studies department at the Institute for Linguistics and Literary Studies (TU Darmstadt).