Do-It-Yourself Memorials

From a do-it-yourself Mount Rushmore, to an automated tribute to the annual toll of traffic deaths, Electronic Monuments describes commemoration as a fundamental experience, joining individual and collective identity. Gregory L. Ulmer proposes that the Internet makes it possible for monumentality to become a site of self-knowledge, one that holds the promise of bringing citizens back into the political equation.

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