Scraping the Monumental: Stepan Bandera through the Lens of Quantitative Memory Studies
Journal: UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam)
Year: 2014

In this article we use the example of Stepan Bandera to demonstrate the effectiveness of web-scraping methods as a tool to explore how people interact with memory content online. Using data from Wikipedia, Twitter and YouTube, we analyse the traces left by users interested in Stepan Bandera and assess how these differ between Ukraine, Russia and Poland. Applying data mining and content analysis to data traditionally analysed from a purely qualitative perspective, we show how Polish content about