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Memory and Self-Memory of Media in Transition in Poland and Russia
Fri, November 21, 3:30 to 5:15pm EST (3:30 to 5:15pm EST), -Session Submission Type: Panel
Brief Description
The proposed panel will focus on the evolution of memory in media and about the media after 1989 in Central Europe and the collapse of the USSR. More precisely, we intend to show what the analysis of the content of cultural products and interviews with their creators tell us about the self-reception of the evolution of media discourse in the journalistic and film environment in the period under discussion. We will consider how mentioned creators describe own condition in relation to the past of the USSR and the Polish People's Republic, up to which point these processes show similarities and when they clearly diversify. We will also discuss turning points in the studied narratives and types of periodization and self-periodization in the studied data. We intend to focus first on the situation of media in Poland in 2015-2023 (restrictions evidenced by Freedom House, Reporters without Borders and the V-Dem) and demonstrate how important point of reference for the journalistic community in Poland was the parallel intensification of repressions against journalists in Russia. Then we will focus on the types of narratives in interviews with Russian journalists, the evolution of their identity and memory about the USSR and the transition of the 1990s. We will also consider to what extent the mentioned evolution of memory differs from the Polish one but also what are common points in both cases (whereas the exemplifications of the presented research will refer to cultural film products, limited to selected film studies).
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The Situation of Media and Journalists in Poland in 2015-2023: Why it is Worth Remembering and Knowing what Happened in Russia - Katarzyna Aneta Konarska, U of Wroclaw (Poland)
Collective and Individual Transition of Self-Memory about Russian Journalism after 1991 - Jedrzej Morawiecki, U of Wrocław (Poland)
Media-Constructed Idyll of the Past: Contemporary Polish Films and the Memory of the Polish People’s Republic - Marcin Adamczak, Polish National Film School / Adam Mickiewicz U (Poland)