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Respect maestro!
My granddad
1913-1991
3rd Overseas Brigade ( 26th Dalmatian Division, 4th Army)
pozz
death to fascism-freedom to the people
stari31
To all our grand fathers, rest in peace!
Raise your voice against fashism!
WooyaBG 301
Considering the above comments, it could be argued that very personal memory in DME is
externalised—i.e. an event, a period, or a person are remembered in such co-created and networkdistributed
content—at the point of ‗connection.‘ At the point of connection (comment), a personal
memory is fused with the entire digital memorial and its specific content. This contributes both to
the very co-creative nature of the 4MO as a memorial and also to extending the commemorated
stuff to include other mourners. When a user navigates to a video, watches it and comments it, or
just reads comments, the process of on-the-fly remembering is enacted via the connection to the
posted content and to the users who have been there before; additionally, leaving a cybertrace, a
comment, also creates a ‗memorial-radical‘: a posted comment becomes and remains part of the
4MO (unless removed by the commentator or hidden due to receiving a certain amount of
‗dislikes‘) for future users to react to (or not). In a 4MO, thus, a temporal structure is asserted that
allows for the continuity of co-creation.
The comments to ―Azra-Partizan‖ reveal that the visitors generally are quite impressed by the
video and watching it often urges them to express their fascination by the video, the song and
often with the topics beyond those depicted in the video. This digital memorial, dedicated to a
partisan, reveals a much wider practice of online remembering:
These were good times when material things didn't divide us, material things that today
divide more than do religious or national. Today it's essential just to have, whichever way
you can. Once being a thief was a disgrace while today it is a cherished skill and value
and that's why I love this song, because in those times at least you knew who's a thief and
who a partisan.
TheChongista
@TheChongista
301 XPartizani0zauvijekX, ―Azra-Partizan,‖ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSOA_B11SjU, accessed 23 August
2010.
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