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Tom Sear

Institutional affiliation: UNSW Canberra @ The Australian Defence Force Academy
Postgraduate student
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
I am a PhD student at UNSW Canberra @ the Australian Defence Force Academy. My PhD explores digital commemoration and the warfare information space (notably interpersonal and social media-based communication) over the last century. My thesis has a particular focus on the convergence and reflexivity between the memory of nodal conflicts from the twentieth century, contemporary war media ecologies and gaming within planetary scale computation. The purpose of this interdisciplinary research is to advise IT specialists, military personnel and educators how to maximize information tools within future conflict, by applying historical, social science and digital theory lenses to the analysis.

My research explores the development, character and impact of digital war commemoration during the centenary of the First World War. The centenary of the First World War is taking place in a highly connected digital world. At the same time as historians reflect on how the remembering of the war has become subjective, personalised, sacralised, affective, mythological, mobile and ahistorical, much of the commemorative activity surrounding the conflict is taking place in the online realm.

RESEARCH TAGS
1. Digital memory 2. Social Media 3. Simulation 4. Military history 5. Commemoration
Geographic Interests
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Period Interests
1914-1918, 2014-2018