The aim of this study is to elucidate the mnemonic conditions established in the ever-increasing production and use of cultural memory in streaming media environments. To gain in-depth insight into how memories are selected for remembering and sorted for forgetting, the focus is the HBO Chernobyl mini-series. The case study of HBO’s Chernobyl is selected to qualitatively explore cultural memories across the series throughout the complexities of globally connected technologies and markets, where different cultures and languages, as well as media framings, come into play. Theoretically, the article is based on conceptualization of cultural memory studies and streaming media platforms. Methodologically, the case study is supported by the multidimensional analytical lens developed by Erll, adopted to elucidate how the cultural memory of Chernobyl is activated, mediated, and shaped by the streaming series. These three dimensions involve the intra-medial aspects of how memory is expressed within the representation itself, the inter-medial relations which designate the interplay with previous representations of the same historical event, and the pluri-medial contexts in which novels and films appear and exert their influence on cultural memory. In the three-dimension analysis, we address the construction and circulation of cultural memory from the production to the reception of the mini-series in multiple media environments and across borders, depicting the social, cultural, and political impact of streaming media productions.

本研究的目的是阐明在流媒体环境中文化记忆的不断增加的生产和使用中建立的助记符条件。为了深入了解如何选择记忆来记忆和分类记忆，重点是 HBO切尔诺贝利迷你系列。HBO切尔诺贝利的案例研究被选中在全球互联技术和市场的复杂性中定性地探索整个系列的文化记忆，不同的文化和语言以及媒体框架在其中发挥作用。理论上，本文基于文化记忆研究和流媒体平台的概念化。在方法论上，案例研究得到了 Erll 开发的多维分析镜头的支持，用于阐明切尔诺贝利的文化记忆如何被流媒体系列激活、调节和塑造。这三个方面涉及到内部内存是如何表示本身表达的的-medial方面间-medial关系与同一历史事件以前的陈述指定的相互作用，以及多民族国家在小说和电影的出现，并发挥其在文化记忆的影响-medial上下文。在三个维度的分析中，我们解决了从迷你剧的制作到接收的文化记忆在多种媒体环境和跨界中的构建和流通​​，描绘了流媒体制作的社会、文化和政治影响。