Museums and Memorials in Social Media

Abstract

This chapter investigates the issues related to digital storytelling, micro-archiving, and media archaeology. Here, the author analyzes and contrasts a selection of museum blogs and several historic Facebook pages. The contrast between Facebook and museum blogging offers an insight into the shifting dynamics of internet genres and the tactics for exteriorizing memory and archiving the past. In this chapter, the investigation focuses on collaborative digital storytelling and commemoration enacted between visitors, administrators, and other social networking platforms. Building on the analysis, the author introduces the concept of enhanced immediacy of remembering with which he emphasizes presence, re-presence, and the user’s entanglement with the past in the everyday communications environment.