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headway 5QgIuuBxKwM unsplashThe development of digital technologies has a huge impact on modern society. Global information infrastructures are becoming a key site for the construction of cultural memory and discussion revealing overlapping international, national and local identities. However, increased access to knowledge, intercultural communication, civic participation and the development of creativity face communication and informational threats. These include fake news, increased aggression in the digital space, entrapment in an ‘information bubble’ and ‘digital amnesia’. A group of researchers from the Faculty of Communication at Vilnius University will investigate how this uncomfortable heritage manifests itself on social networks.

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b15ext5VUFC invites you to a research lecture by Postdoctoral Fellow Agiatis Benardou on Commemorating difficult heritage through immersive technologies: The case of Block 15 of the Haidari Concentration Camp. The lecture is the event of a seminar series on Contested heritage, memory, and identity practices: Eastern European and global contexts, organized by the Connective Digital Memory in the Borderlands project, supported by European Social Fund (project No. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-17-0027) under grant agreement with the Research Council of Lithuania (LMTLT).

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