The Overton Window as a Technology for Transforming Historical Memory
https://doi.org/10.21453/2311-3065-2025-13-2-13-25
Abstract
Commemorations have always acted as ideological tools, but at the present stage historical memory has begun to be actively used as a space for information warfare. But, whereas the information warfare is most often understood as the active phase of confrontation, then shaping historical memory is a constant process that occurs both in “hot” and “cold” phases of confrontation. In the context of mediatization of social space, the perception of historical events based on available facts, is increasingly supplemented and replaced by their semantic interpretation. This brings to life the emergence of concepts such as “post-truth” and “post-reality”. In a situation of progressive growth of sources and volumes of information, “real” reality fades into the background and gives way to the flow of interpretations made by stakeholders in order to influence the consciousness and behavior of consumers One of the key technologies for changing historical memory is the Overton Window. The article is devoted to the analysis of the principles of work of this tool to purposefully change historical memory on the example of World War II.
About the Author
E. E. Shults
Moscow State Linguistic University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Shults Eduard Eduardovich – CandSc (Hist.), associate professor, Head of the Department of Communication technology
119034, Moscow, Ostozhenka st., 38/1
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Shults E.E. The Overton Window as a Technology for Transforming Historical Memory. Communicology. 2025;13(2):13-25. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21453/2311-3065-2025-13-2-13-25
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