This article explores the Internet’s often touted potential for facilitating reconciliation. It conceptualises Wikipedia as a site for collective memory construction and analyses the Chinese- and Japanese-language entries on the bilaterally contentious Second Sino-Japanese War. It addresses the question of how to make sense of the construction of these online collective memory narratives theoretically. Both historical determinism and instrumentalism – two influential theoretical approaches to collective memory and reconciliation – have great difficulties in fully accounting for this case. Instead, it is argued that ontological security theory is better equipped for understanding collective memory construction in Wikipedia. It is suggested that ontological security seeking can impede efforts for reconciliation even when, as in Wikipedia, there exist norms seeking to promote more neutral narratives. It is argued that a subtle bias in favour of the in-group and against the out-group functions as a mechanism for ontological security management that protects a positive self-identity.

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互联网上的国际和解？维基百科中的本体安全、归属和战争记忆叙事的构建

本文探讨了互联网经常被吹捧的促进和解的潜力。它将维基百科概念化为一个集体记忆构建的网站，并分析了关于双边有争议的第二次中日战争的中文和日文条目。它解决了如何从理论上理解这些在线集体记忆叙事的构建的问题。历史决定论和工具主义——两种有影响力的集体记忆与和解理论方法——都很难完全解释这种情况。相反，有人认为本体安全理论更适合理解维基百科中的集体记忆结构。有人认为，即使在 Wikipedia 中，本体安全寻求可能会阻碍和解的努力，存在寻求促进更中立叙述的规范。有人认为，有利于内群体和反对外群体的微妙偏见是一种保护积极自我身份的本体安全管理机制。