%0 Journal Article
%T The Romanian ¡°Latchkey Generation¡± writes back: Memory genres of post
%A Codru£¿a Alina Pohrib
%J Memory Studies
%@ 1750-6999
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1750698017709869
%X Since the 2000s an alternative engagement with the communist past has emerged across media in Romania in the shape of a generational discourse, which negotiates a post-communist generational identity for individuals growing up in the 1970s¨C1980s. This article focuses on the online memory practices of this self-dubbed ¡°latchkey generation¡± by investigating an emerging life writing genre¡ªthe Facebook generatiography¡ªand its reliance on the archiving of communist memorabilia in the shape of photographed objects. How do generational frames of remembrance, members of a specific generation, and the sociotechnical affordances of Facebook pages intra-act to produce this genre? And what does it ¡°do¡± in the context of post-communist Romania? This article sets about answering these questions while arguing for the renewed need to think about generations as generically actualized discursive strategies in the age of social media
%K digital memory
%K Facebook
%K generatiography
%K memorabilia
%K post-communism
%K Romania
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1750698017709869