Political Memory as Agonistic Practice on Social Media

In recent decades, digital platforms have become central arenas for reconfiguring cultural memory. Slogans such as “Smrt fašizmu – svoboda narodu” reappear within algorithmically curated environments, where users repeat, adapt, and contest them in relation to contemporary struggles. The shift from top-down memory regimes to platform-mediated practices calls for rethinking the relationship between multimodality, platform affordances, and regimes of remembering. Digital memory operates within a “memory ecology” shaped by personalization and feedback loops, transforming ritualized mnemonic forms into sites of political agonism, where meaning, legitimacy, and power are continuously negotiated in the present.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Published
2026-02-25
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18771991
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Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
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Political Memory as Agonistic Practice on Social Media

Jan Babnik, Polona Tratnik
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
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Political Memory as Agonistic Practice on Social Media

Jan Babnik, Polona Tratnik
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Abstract

In recent decades, digital platforms have become central arenas for reconfiguring cultural memory. Slogans such as “Smrt fašizmu – svoboda narodu” reappear within algorithmically curated environments, where users repeat, adapt, and contest them in relation to contemporary struggles. The shift from top-down memory regimes to platform-mediated practices calls for rethinking the relationship between multimodality, platform affordances, and regimes of remembering. Digital memory operates within a “memory ecology” shaped by personalization and feedback loops, transforming ritualized mnemonic forms into sites of political agonism, where meaning, legitimacy, and power are continuously negotiated in the present.

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