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<p><P>While corporations, governmental groups, and public relations firms debated the best way to memorialize the event of 9/11, sites of commemoration could be seen across the country and especially on the Internet. Greg Ulmer suggests that this reality points us to a new sense of monumentality, one that is collaborative in nature rather than iconic.&nbsp;<br><br>From a do-it-yourself Mount Rushmore to an automated tribute to the devastating annual toll of traffic deaths in the United States, <i>Electronic Monuments</i> describes commemoration as a fundamental experience, joining individual and collective identity, and adapting both to the emerging apparatus of &#8220;electracy,&#8221; or digital literacy. Concerns about the destruction of civic life caused by the society of the spectacle are refocused on the question of how a collectivity remembers who or what it is.&nbsp;<br><br>Ulmer proposes that the Internet makes it possible for monumentality to become a primary site of self-knowledge, one that supports a new politics, ethics, and dimension of education. The Internet thus holds the promise of bringing citizens back into the political equation as witnesses and monitors.&nbsp;

Author

Ulmer, Gregory L. , 1944-

Publisher

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816645831

Subjects

Education