Typology Issues of Commemoration Practices in New Media

This article addresses the transformation of cultural and communicative memory in digital space “new media.” A comparative analysis three classification options for commemoration practices media” is presented, including R. Smith, L. Zamboni, M. Gibson, K. Carden. The examines mechanisms social ties offline online argues that are increasingly based on simulacra representations media recognized by users, rather than personal or historical experience. also focuses problem nostalgia its popularity networks video games related to a longing stable symbolic specific period aesthetics. Commemoration involve not only digitization but active modification old media, built dual logic recognizability past images hypermediation gives players users certain degree freedom choose affordances.