TRAPRODIG · Trauma Studies in the Digital Age: The Impact of Social Media on Trauma Processing in Life Narratives and in Trauma Literature: the Case of Hungary

Trauma Studies in the Digital Age: The Impact of Social Media on Trauma Processing in Life Narratives and in Trauma Literature: the Case of Hungary

Anna Menyhért Trauma Studies in the Digital Age: The Impact of Social Media on Trauma Processing in Life Narratives and in Trauma Literature: the Case of Hungary The TRAPRODIG project analyzed cultural and literary trauma processing in the framework of digital memory studies, particularly in relation to the similarities and differences of collective trauma processing and trauma literature in modern democracies and dictatorships; with a special trans-cultural focus on the case of Hungary as a post-socialist country with unresolved twentieth century collective traumas and on life narratives of Hungarian migrants in Western Europe. Fulfilling its interdisciplinary scientific goal the project introduced the concept of “digital (cultural and literary) trauma processing” and developed the new scientific field of “digital trauma studies” at the intersection of digital memory studies, cultural trauma studies and social/digital media research. The two way knowledge transfer in the training-through research of Anna Menyhért, an expert on literary and cultural trauma studies, at the leading research centre of cultural and digital memory studies at the University of Amsterdam, supervised by Ellen Rutten, an expert on digital memory studies, proved to be exceptionally successful. The TRAPRODIG project is of clear relevance to the Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions programme as it contributed to a better understanding of the link of current cultural developments to the collective traumas of the past in post-socialist countries; it drew attention to the voices of contemporary migrants within the European cultural framework; and it also added significantly to the mapping of trauma literature and life narratives in Europe by analysing how the 21st century digital environment influences both personal and collective trauma processing in local, national and trans-national communities within Europe.

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