The role of emotions in the dynamics of remembering/forgetting the collective traumatic event 9/11 2001 from September 11 to Iraq war

Annamaria Silvana de Rosa

Abstract: The article concerns the role of images and their emotional impact in the construction of social memory mediated by the new scenarios in mass communications systems. It starts with considerations of a theoretical nature by critically discussing the statute of images in flashbulb Memories paradigm – which still remains anchored to an informative and computational model –and in the almost ignored field of study about the iconic representations and their invisibility in psychological research on social representations and collective memory. The data analyses focus on the mediated role of emotions in the collective remembering: realized then and then re-elicited 5 weeks, 7 months, 1 year, 15, 17 and 18 months after the traumatic media event of the attack on the World Trade Centre in the United States and the day after the invasion of Iraq by the Anglo-American-Australian coalition. The results are presented in a double temporal (then/now and in a time frame lasted 18 months) and social (between individual and collective memory) perspective.

Rezumat: Acest articol analizeazã rolul imaginilor şi impactul lor emoţional în construirea memoriei sociale mediate de noile scenarii din sistemele de comunicare în masã. Articolul începe cu consideraţii de naturã teoreticã, analizând critic statutul imaginilor din paradigma flashbulb memories -– care rãmâne încã ancoratã într-un model informativ şi computaţional – –şi din domeniul aproape ignorat al studiului reprezentãrilor iconice şi al invizibilitãţii lor în cercetarea psihologicã asupra reprezentãrilor şi memoriei colective. Analiza datelor se concentreazã asupra rolului mediat al emoţiilor în amintirea colectivã: realizatã atunci, iar apoi resuscitatã la 5 sãptãmâni, 7 luni, 1 an, 15, 17 şi 18 luni dupã traumaticul eveniment mediatic reprezentat de atacul asupra World Trade Center din Statele Unite, precum şi a doua zi dupã invazia Irakului de cãtre coaliţia anglo-americano-australianã. Rezultatele sunt prezentate dintr-o perspectivã dublã – temporalã (atunci/acum şi într-un cadru temporal de 18 luni) şi socialã (între memoria individualã şi cea colectivã).

Résumé: Cet article regarde le rôle des images et leur impacte émotionnel dans la construction de la mémoire sociale médiée par le nouveau scénario des systèmes communicationnels de masse. Il commence avec des considérations de nature théorique, en discutant de manière critique le statut des images dans le paradigme flashbulb memories – qui reste toujours ancré dans un modèle informatif et computationnel – et dans le domaine presque ignoré de l’étude des représentations et de leur invisibilité dans la recherche psychologique des représentations et de la mémoire collective. L’’analyse des données est focalisée sur le rôle médié des émotions dans la mémoire collective: réalisée alors et puis resuscitée après 5 semaines, 7 mois, 1 année, 15, 17 et 18 mois du traumatique événement médiatique représenté par l’attaque du World Trade Center, dans les Etats Unis, et le jour suivant à l’’invasion de l’’Irak par la coalition anglo-américaino-australienne. Les résultats sont présentés d’’une double perspective: temporelle (alors/maintenant et dans un cadre temporel de 18 mois) et sociale (entre la mémoire individuelle et celle collective).

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