Si les Balkans n’existaient pas, il faudrait les inventer*.
The so-called “New Media” are mainly the new medium of administration of memory in general. In the length of time “new media” have emerged repeatedly. In general, they are linked with the objectives, the manipulative necessities and the restructuring of facts, that benefit the given winner and consequently ambitious editor of history. The Balkans or in other words – depending on the circumstances- South-Eastern Europe and the issue of administrating memory, the policy of this administration, to be more exact, draws its origin from the global recess of the beginning of the 20th century. This policy was applied eventually also regionally in the new states incorporating fresh forms of political empowerment, which initially attempted to encompass them in order to manage the local crisis’s
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Radical social criticism: A threat or a cheat?
One of the apparent characteristics of critical thought in the field of the new media today and in general, is the poor relation they maintain with History and the accumulated experience. The latter can be used through the careful apprehension of historical events, their causes, and their contemporary importance, either when they are used for the production of artistic works or as a platform of political action and sensitization of the public opinion globally.
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