New media ecologies and memory in Chile and Argentina: confronting the violent past online.

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With the proliferation of the internet many museums and archives have developed digital mediaplatforms for engaging audiences and sharing knowledge. Digital heritage consists of 'computerbased materials of enduring value' for future generations (www.unesco.org). Through digitisation,the internet provides new audiences access to collections, interactive spaces and virtual museumenvironments.After dictatorships and conflict, many Latin American countries in the 1990s and 2000s createdphysical memory sites to remember those who suffered, to educate, and to generate democraticdebate and respect for human rights. While there is an ever-expanding body of literature thatengages with these physical memory spaces (Jelin, 2007; Bell, 2014; Di Paolantonio, 2011; Da SilvaCatela, 2001) there has been little engagement with online platforms as alternative spaces totransmit memories, engage audiences, and archive the past despite their often leading role in LatinAmerican countries.