The Memorecord crowdsourcing initiative is part of the PhD research project entitled “Shaping a digital memory platform on migration narratives: A public history project on Italian and Portuguese migration memories in Luxembourg”, conducted by Anita Lucchesi at the University of Luxembourg’s Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) and funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund.
As a digital public history project, this crowdsourcing experiment combines community participation and academic research to offer a new perspective on the history of migration in Luxembourg. The project makes use of new communication technologies to approach history in a collaborative way.
The aim of this PhD project is to study migration memories and narratives in Luxembourg, combining a multifaceted cultural history framework with a systematic historical analysis of the mediated memories of migrants. Approaching the subject from the perspective of “history from below” and using an innovative methodological apparatus built on digital public history methods, this research is designed to cultivate an alternative means of storytelling through digital technology, engaging community members by acknowledging their own role as players in history. One of the main outcomes of this research project, as well as the PhD thesis itself, is the community-based development of the Memorecord platform, which is designed to harness an alternative digital approach to storytelling about migration in Luxembourg and share memories of different generations and communities online.
The #memorecord crowdsourcing experiment relies on community participation. All public posts on Facebook and Instagram tagged with the project hashtag (#memorecord) will be shared on our social networks and displayed in the website gallery. One of the main questions #memorecord wants to answer is “What is behind and beyond the successful story of migration in Luxembourg?”.
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