Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
HELSINKI CONFERENCE ON EMOTIONS, POPULISM AND POLARISATION, Helsinki, Finlandiya, 15 - 17 Haziran 2022, sa.3, ss.11, (Özet Bildiri)
Collective Memory in the Post-Truth Era: Digital Counter-Memory Archives from Turkey The last decade has seen a return to what has been called the post-truth era, characterized by objective facts being less effective in shaping public opinion than appealing to emotions and personal beliefs. The effects of this process were also seriously reflected in memory studies, which examine the individual and social processes of remembering and forgetting in the most general sense (Neyzi, 2020). In the post-truth era, the collective memory seems to have lost touch with historical facts. Although the concept of post-truth seems to be a relatively new concept, in fact, in 1992, philosopher Jeff Malpas predicted that post-modernism would bring along a post-truth era while discussing the complex relationship between modernity and reality (Malpas, 1992). The relationship of the concept of collective memory to reality has always been a complicated relationship, as it acts on the basis of subjectivity and is in opposition to history. Moreover, because the construction of collective memory relies not only on the transformation of historical knowledge but also on people’s actual experiences of the past, it makes a particularly interesting field of study in a world where personal experiences and emotions take precedence over objective facts and expertise. In this paper, first of all, the roots of social memory and its relationship with history will be mentioned, then the concepts of strong and weak memory will be discussed. By emphasizing the relationship between digital media and social memory, the concept of counter-memory and some counter-memory archives in Turkey and its potential to be a truth policy in the post-truth era will be examined. Keywords: collective memory, counter memory, post truth, social polarization