A headless Christopher Columbus statue standing in a waterfront park in Boston after it was beheaded by demonstrators. With digital memorialisations historians and their audiences have the opportunity to use and appreciate new sources and perspectives about the past. — AP
VIRTUAL sites of memorialisation of mass atrocities, from web pages and blogs to social media, have proliferated this century.
Recent developments like holograms, artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) permit further changes in the very nature of memorialisation, including simultaneously, and sometimes paradoxically, decentralising and globalising it.
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