Collective Memory as Currency

Chapter Four Collective Memory in an Age of Digital Transformations – A Different Kind of Currency?

Collective memory is an institutionalized and objectified narrative of representations and public communication (Assmann and Czaplicka 1995). In a “culture of connectivity” (Van Dijck 2013), the pervasive use of networked technologies and social media are increasingly on the rise. In such an environment in which digital-memory culture transitions toward social media (Ebbrecht-Hartmann 2021), “new media technologies … have allowed for novel memory-making practices that transcend established boundaries of space, time and social experience” (Keightley and Schlesinger 2014, 747). Real-time and instantaneous messaging between peers, groups, and ...