Geographies of Commemoration in a Digital World

In this introductory chapter, we outline three key points of distinction in our examination of geographies of commemoration in a digital world. First, we discuss our characterization of geographies of commemoration and its importance. Second, we outline our approach to tropes of Anzac, and explain how these tropes link to memories, places and experiences of Anzac and how they play out and transform, or not, in and through a digital world. Third, we detail our position on geographies of commemoration in a digital world, proposing that the digital constitutes opportunities to influence how we remember. Our discussion threads along the productive value of the digital, and how it reveals in the dialogues between concepts of commemoration and ethnographic methodologies and how these operationalize through commemorative geographies.