This document discusses how digital technologies can help people process traumatic memories of natural disasters. It focuses on how survivors and rescuers of the 2009 earthquake in Abruzzi, Italy used social media and sharing videos online to cope with and remember the traumatic event. Digital tools like social media, online videos, and sharing photos provided new ways for people to communicate about their experiences and process their memories of the disaster as a way to help with recovery.

1. DIGITAL MEMORIES
Inter-disciplinari NET 14-16 march 2011
Traumatic event and digital memories:
remembering and processing the earthquake in
Abruzzi
Alessandra Micalizzi
IULM University – Communication dept.
alessandra.micalizzi@iulm.it

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