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Social and Collective Memory

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Social and collective memory refers to the shared pool of knowledge and information that is held by a group, community, or society, encompassing the ways in which groups remember their past, construct narratives, and shape identities through collective experiences and cultural practices.
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Social and collective memory refers to the shared pool of knowledge and information that is held by a group, community, or society, encompassing the ways in which groups remember their past, construct narratives, and shape identities through collective experiences and cultural practices.

Key research themes

1. How do multilevel social processes and temporal dynamics shape the formation, transmission, and impact of collective memory?

This research area investigates the interplay between collective and individual memory through micro, meso, and macro levels of social interaction, and how collective memory evolves over multiple generations. Understanding these processes is crucial as collective memories influence group identity, social cohesion, and intergenerational knowledge transmission. It bridges psychological, sociological, and communication perspectives by emphasizing family and small groups as mediators in the transmission of memory, as well as long-term temporal dynamics beyond single generations.

Key finding: Proposes an hourglass metaphor framing collective memory as a dynamic process linking the collective and individual levels through family values and representations at the meso level. This conceptual framework reconciles the... Read more
Key finding: Empirically demonstrates that socially shared retrieval-induced forgetting (SSRIF)—where selective retrieval of memories by interlocutors leads to forgetting of related unmentioned information—is enhanced among in-group... Read more
Key finding: Extends the understanding of collective memory by emphasizing implicit mechanisms of selective forgetting induced through communicative acts of remembering. The paper highlights that not only remembering but also forgetting... Read more
Key finding: Develops and empirically validates a biexponential mathematical model describing the decay of collective memory and attention across varied cultural products (scientific papers, songs, movies, biographies). The model... Read more
Key finding: Provides longitudinal empirical evidence demonstrating that collective memory of historical knowledge (e.g., U.S. presidents) exhibits well-characterized cognitive phenomena such as primacy, recency, and systematic forgetting... Read more

2. How does digital technology transform the formation, practice, and study of collective memory?

This theme addresses the profound impact of digital technologies—such as social media, big data, algorithmic curation, and digital archives—on how collective memory is constructed, maintained, and mediated in contemporary societies. Research investigates the dual concepts of 'digitalized collective memory' (memory shaped by digital media) and 'collective memory in the digital age' (new forms of memory enabled by digital networks). It also explores methodological innovations leveraging digital trace data to quantitatively analyze collective remembering and forgetting, as well as the challenges and new epistemic dynamics introduced by algorithmic influence and participatory digital cultures.

Key finding: Distinguishes between 'digitalized collective memory'—existing collective memory shaped and transformed by digital technologies—and emergent new collectives formed exclusively by digital interaction. It elaborates on how... Read more
Key finding: Argues that digital media radically alter traditional notions of collective memory by changing the spatiotemporal boundaries and participatory modes of remembrance. The chapter critiques the fading relevance of centralized,... Read more
Key finding: Although grounded also in traditional cultural products, the study incorporates large-scale digital data (page views, citations, online attention) to model collective memory decay. This illustrates how digital trace data can... Read more
Key finding: Highlights the crucial role of media technologies in shaping explicit and implicit collective memory narratives, emphasizing how new media serve as symbolic mediation tools that co-author collective memory by embedding... Read more

3. In what ways does collective memory intersect with political identity, power, and social resilience?

This stream explores how collective memory functions as a political and ideological resource that shapes social identities, legitimizes power structures, and mobilizes social groups. It addresses memory as a site of contestation, political negotiation, and governmentality, especially in contexts such as post-conflict societies, diaspora communities, and cultural heritage disputes. Moreover, it examines collective memory’s role as a resilience factor, supporting community cohesion and identity continuity amid migration, trauma, or socio-political change.

Key finding: Proposes a discursive framework for the politics of memory that emphasizes how collective memory is strategically constructed and contested within political arenas, both top-down (state actors) and bottom-up (civil society).... Read more
Key finding: Innovatively applies Foucauldian governmentality theory to memory studies, demonstrating that public memory functions as a technology of governance shaping citizens’ conduct and political rationalities. The empirical case of... Read more
Key finding: Integrates archaeological and social psychological research to show how social identification, shared social identity, and collective memory operated as key resilience factors in sustaining a large prehistoric diasporic... Read more
Key finding: Meta-analyses of cross-cultural free-recall studies reveal that collective memories are socio-centric and influenced by group identity, with political and conflict-related events priming memory content. Findings highlight... Read more
Key finding: Identifies egocentricity in collective memory—especially nationalist or group-centered narratives emphasizing a group's unique past—as a key driver of intergroup conflict and polarization. It encourages further research into... Read more

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Der Beitrag befasst sich mit dem aktiven In-Bezug-Setzen eines vergangenen negativen Großereignisses zu Fragen nach gegenwartsbezogenen Wertordnungen und zukunftsbezogenen Präventionsmaßnahmen. Gedächtnistheoretisch wird dabei an das... more
David Loye’s concept of the hololeap describes how precognitive information “leaps” across the gap between organisms to enable future vision. This maps to Denis Gabor’s energetic unit of information, the logon, wherein the spectral... more
Since primeval times, people have spoken of strange and sometimes profoundly meaningful personal experiences. Such experiences have been reported by the majority of the world's population and across all cultures. … These experiences,... more
In Part One, Love’s ubiquitous power was documented—both for human biopsychosocial function, and for accessing higher consciousness and psychic proficiencies. Here, in Part Two, a quantum holographic account elucidates love’s vital role... more
The present study examines shapes of burial jars, "Kamekan," used mainly in northern Kyushu in the Middle Yayoi period, by using elliptic Fourier analysis to investigate the inter-regional variations. The results suggest that highly small... more
Este seminario tiene como objeto el análisis comparado, en sus diferentes derivadas nacionales, del papel desempeñado por la violencia institucionalizada del Estado en los fenómenos de violencia de masas del siglo XX. Los regímenes... more
Relacja Abrahama Jakuba Krzepickiego 13 września 1942 r. Abram Jakub Krzepicki zdołał uciec z obozu zagłady w Treblince. O tym, co widział i czego doświadczył w "fabryce produkującej trupy", opowiedział Racheli Auerbach, dziennikarce... more
Należy głos oddać świadkom. Albowiem wyłącznie oninieliczni, którym udało się przetrwać i przeżyć -są zdolni ukazać ten ciąg wydarzeń trwających od marca 1942 r. do listopada 1943 r., znany jako "Akcja Reinhardt".
Apresentação do livro de Fernando Abreu "Do sonho à realidade. O livro como semente da liberdade". Lisboa: Edições Base, 2024, pp. 11-14.
Der vorliegende Band ist im Rahmen eines Forschungsprojektes entstanden, das sich mit der Erinnerungstopographie der »Bonner Republik« in Nordrhein-Westfalen auseinandersetzt. Während die Projekt-Website 1 konkrete Beispiele von Orten,... more
This essay examines the journey of a group of women survivors of genocidal violence in memorializing the suppressed history of anti-imperialist nationalism and the survival of female political prisoners through choral performances. These... more
Sinopse: Esse dossiê se origina de trabalhos apresentados no V Simpósio Internacional Comunicação e Cultura: Aproximações com Memória e História Oral - Os desafios da Interculturalidade, que se realizou em maio de 2025, na Universidade... more
A short article that explains the dialectics of "Israelism is Judaism" and "Judaism is Israelism".
Bedross Der Matossian's edited volume is an irreplaceable resource for scholars and students interested in the changing governmental tactics of genocide denialism that span the globe today. This edited volume orients readers toward... more
Este trabajo explica las tareas y resultados obtenidos en el proyecto Osuna Recuerda por parte de un equipo de antropólogas/o cuyo objetivo era acceder a familiares de víctimas represaliadas durante los dos primeros años de la Guerra... more
In many of his renowned novels, Kazuo Ishiguro deals with a number of memories with specific signs; such as human feelings, emotions, trauma, love, attraction, forgetting, rewriting memory, anomaly of the story or narrator and many more.... more
[ES] El término de memoria colectiva fue acuñado por Maurice Halbwachs hace un siglo en el marco de la sociología de la memoria, aunque es en el ámbito de los estudios de la memoria donde la noción adquirió el... more
Considerando que as Tradições em seu processo de transmissão até o momento de sua forma escrita nos Evangelhos foram mediadas pela Memória, esta pesquisa tem como principal objetivo examinar e refletir sobre a relação entre Memória e... more
La estrategia de comunicación pública de las ex presas políticas uruguayas (1997-2017) Durante la última dictadura el terror fue social y masivo, tuvo muchos rostros, diversas voces, habitó cada vínculo, cada familia, cada espacio social,... more
This article questions the time of white modernity based on historical periodization and sequential progression, arguing for a more multifaceted approach to time and space in linguistic landscapes (LL). It rethinks the concept of... more
El sitio arqueológico Posta El Caldén corresponde a una posta de caminos y pulpería ocupada hacia finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX, perteneciente a una serie de postas ubicadas entre las ciudades de Parera e Intendente... more
This chapter analyses the role of culture in building the regenerative capacity of cities and counteracting degradation processes. The author starts from the concept of a regenerative city, which combines social, economic and ecological... more
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Nigeria is a nation rich in natural and human resources, but it is also inundated by acute environmental degradation, which affects its marginalized communities. This has sparked a strong need for environmental advocacy, justice, and... more
The article presents ways in which the future is represented in the recollections of eyewitnesses to the W arsaw U prising. T he analytical material comprises a collection of over 4,000 interviews, accessible to a wide audience through... more
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Fear is memory made visible in the struggle to survive. To have fear is to recall collapse and to refuse it. Fear itself is impossible without memory, and therefore every fear is proof that Memory = Life (M = L). Continuum Across the... more
Fear is memory made visible in the struggle to survive. To have fear is to recall collapse and to refuse it. Fear itself is impossible without memory, and therefore every fear is proof that Memory = Life (M = L). Continuum Across the... more
We look at the network of mathematicians defined by the hyperlinks between their biographies on Wikipedia. We show how to extract this information using three snapshots of the Wikipedia data, taken in 2013, 2017 and 2018. We illustrate... more
A través de una aproximación comparativa, se examinan los entramados de actores comprometidos con la memoria histórica a partir de los enfoques "desde abajo", liderados por víctimas y comunidades, y "desde arriba", promovidos por la... more
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Archival documents are a vital source for historical writing. This article draws on extensive experience with the archives of the Regional Directorate of the Cadastre of Constantine, Algeria, to provide researchers from around the world a... more
How do status symbols rise and fall? Or better said, how does a status symbol become a status symbol and then cease to be one? We examine the rise and the fall of the Ottoman Empire's two socialization practices with the international... more
This article aims to present the similarities and differences between the governments of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, who ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945, and that of the current president of the United States, with aspirations of... more
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As periferias da Zona Sul de São Paulo carregam uma longa tradição de lutas e movimentos sociais que têm o trabalho de memória como uma importante força de mobilização popular. Em 2019, o Centro de Memória das Lutas Populares Ana Dias foi... more
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This report analyses the discursive construction of Estonian national identity in the year 2000, drawing from both elite and mass perspectives. While shared ideals – such as cultural heritage, state sovereignty, responsible governance,... more
A América Latina tem vivenciado processos de rupturas e de retomada dos regimes democráticos, que nos fazem repensar o seu passado autoritário. Trata-se de um desafio que estimula a construir e defender uma perspectiva de aprofundamento... more
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