Memory, Conflict and New Media

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<P>This book examines the online memory wars in post-Soviet states ¿ where political conflicts take the shape of heated debates about the recent past, and especially World War II and Soviet socialism. </P><P>To this day, former socialist states face the challenge of constructing national identities, producing national memories, and relating to the Soviet legacy. Their pasts are principally intertwined: changing readings of history in one country generate fierce reactions in others. In this transnational memory war, digital media form a pivotal discursive space ¿ one that provides speakers with radically new commemorative tools. </P><P>Uniting contributions by leading scholars in the field,<I> Memory, Conflict and New Media</I> is the first book-length publication to analyse how new media serve as a site of political and national identity building in post-socialist states. The book also examines how the construction of online identity is irreversibly affected by thinking about the past