CEE: “Social Media and Social Memory”

Evgeny Morozov writes about “social media and social memory ^[1]” – and a Facebook project ^[2] involving a 22-year-old Lublin resident posing as a 7-year-old Jewish boy ^[3] who was killed by the Nazis during WWII. Vaviblog ^[4] (ENG) is a similar project, which “gives voice” to Russian scientist Nikolai Vavilov: “…if Vavilov were alive today, he’d be popping into the nearest internet café at every opportunity to share his discoveries with the world.” Another similar project is a pseudo-blog of Hava Volovich ^[5] (RUS), who was born in 1916 in Ukraine, spent nearly 20 years in the Soviet labor camps and exile, and died in 2000.