Pandemic and memory: Online memory narratives of COVID-19 survivors in China

IF 2.1 2区 文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION
Yi Yang
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Abstract This study explored how COVID-19 survivors construct their digital memories of the pandemic by analyzing 110 online memory narratives of COVID-19 survivors on Zhihu, China’s most popular question-and-answer platform. Social media grounded theory was used to identify themes and interpret the results. Four recurring themes emerged from the data: life during treatment, life after treatment, the role of bio/informational technologies, and the motivation for remembrance. The results show how COVID-19 survivors activated the affordances of Zhihu to record the life stories neglected in the state-led memory-making process and transformed them into prospective memories aimed at justice for such survivors. This study contributes to our understanding of how the politics of memory and the politics of platform entangle with each other in the Chinese context.
大流行与记忆:中国新冠肺炎幸存者的在线记忆叙事
本研究通过分析中国最受欢迎的问答平台知乎上110名COVID-19幸存者的在线记忆叙述,探讨了COVID-19幸存者如何构建他们对大流行的数字记忆。基于社交媒体的理论被用来确定主题并解释结果。数据中出现了四个反复出现的主题:治疗期间的生活,治疗后的生活,生物/信息技术的作用,以及记忆的动机。研究结果显示,COVID-19幸存者如何激活知湖的功能,记录在国家主导的记忆制造过程中被忽视的生活故事,并将其转化为旨在为这些幸存者伸张正义的前瞻性记忆。本研究有助于我们理解记忆政治与平台政治在中国语境下是如何相互纠缠的。
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