Visualizing the Past, Envisioning the Future: Utilizing Atomic Bomb Memorials, Fukushima, and the ‘Fourth Space’ of Comparative Informatics to Construct a Peaceful Future

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dc.contributor.author Miller, Mara
dc.date.accessioned 2014-05-05T20:06:42Z
dc.date.available 2014-05-05T20:06:42Z
dc.date.issued 2014-03-21
dc.description Presented at the Numata Conference in Buddhist Studies / “Violence, Nonviolence, and Japanese Religions: Past, Present, and Future,” held in Honolulu, Hawaii, March 20–21, 2014
dc.description.abstract The triple disaster of March 11, 2011 raises questions about how to commemorate its events and people. The twentieth century witnessed massive shifts in our expectations of memorials. Since World War II, memorials have been recognized as disseminating complex information and constructing collective memory. They also play another role that is equally important but under-recognized: strengthening, creating, redefining, and/or changing six kinds of human relationships, including those with future generations. Two sets of issues will be outlined. First, can we learn from Hiroshima Peace Park, which has addressed these issues for fifty years, particularly from the contributions of religions? How should we address questions about peaceful as well as wartime usages of nuclear power, or about the interplays of natural disaster and unintentional industrial violence? Second, new memorials will be created in the digital age, adding dimensions, speed, reach and connection. The field of comparative informatics addresses questions about informatics cross-culturally and across different kinds of arenas, particularly insofar as it takes place in the “fourth space” of digital and on-line shared experience. How can comparative informatics facilitate the new tasks to be borne by the 3/11 memorials?
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/32962
dc.language eng
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject atomic bombs
dc.subject World War II
dc.subject March 11
dc.subject 2011 triple disaster
dc.subject memorialization
dc.subject comparative informatics
dc.subject digital age
dc.title Visualizing the Past, Envisioning the Future: Utilizing Atomic Bomb Memorials, Fukushima, and the ‘Fourth Space’ of Comparative Informatics to Construct a Peaceful Future
dc.type Conference Paper
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