Making Digital Iconic Events:Short-video Curation and the Performing of Pandemic Memories
Drawing on the perspective of digital curation,this article analyzes the life trajectories of several short videos widely circulated during the Wuhan lockdown to explore the making of digital iconic events and the performing of COVID-19 and its memories.The comparative analysis of multiple cases reveals that the social life of digital iconic events covers three interpretive phases,i.e.,circulation,domestication,and canonization.In their multi-modal memory practices,social media users and institutional media mobilize a wide variety of digital curation strategies to create copies or variants of the short videos,extend or reverse the performance scenarios,amplify or transform the emotions of performers and the audience,and integrate them into the grand narrative.Eventually,some short videos became fleeting moments,while others were etched into public memory with a"moving"tone.
short videosCOVID-19multi-modal memory practicesdigital iconic eventsdigital curation
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