GitHub as a collaborative curation platform for memory projects of COVID-19 in China

IF 4.2 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-01-03 DOI:10.1080/1369118X.2022.2161828

E. Han

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This study looks at online collaborative memory projects on GitHub, all of which started amid China’s war on the then unknown corona virus in early 2020 and curated stories from Chinese language social media, news outlets, and official websites. It finds that GitHub enables a collaborative yet centralized archiving and curation workflow, and each of the three projects present unique ways the COVID-19 memories can be preserved. Three key events – the lockdown of Wuhan, the death of the whistleblowing doctor, and the controversy over Fang Fang’s diaries – are further analyzed to show how these memory projects could form narratives that post challenge to the officially sanctioned version of the ‘correct’ collective memory.

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GitHub作为中国COVID-19记忆项目协同策展平台

本研究考察了GitHub上的在线协作记忆项目，这些项目都是在2020年初中国抗击当时未知的冠状病毒期间启动的，并从中文社交媒体、新闻媒体和官方网站上整理了故事。研究发现，GitHub实现了协作但集中的归档和管理工作流程，三个项目中的每一个都提供了保存COVID-19记忆的独特方式。三个关键事件——武汉的封锁，告密医生的死亡，以及方方日记的争议——被进一步分析，以展示这些记忆项目如何形成对官方认可的“正确”集体记忆版本的挑战。

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Information Communication & Society Multiple-

CiteScore

10.20

自引率

4.80%

发文量

110

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