Shanti Sumartojo – The Conversation

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May 22, 2018

Digital commemoration: a new way to remember victims of terrorism

Martin Coward, University of Manchester; Angharad Closs Stephens, Swansea University; Samuel Merrill, Umeå University, and Shanti Sumartojo, RMIT University

How social media is beginning to shape the way the public commemorates tragedies like the Manchester attack.

SBS’s support for Eurovision has been rewarded with our inclusion this year in the contest. EPA/ Joerg Carstensen

February 11, 2015

Australia is in the Eurovision – please adjust your maps

Catherine Strong, RMIT University; Ben Wellings, Monash University, and Shanti Sumartojo, RMIT University

Yesterday, it was announced that for the first time, Australia would be given a competitive place in the Eurovision Song Contest. Not only this, but Australians can also vote (and let’s not overlook the…

Many parties have a vested interest in shaping the way we remember the Great War ahead of its centenary, but some are more equal than others. EPA/Thomas Bregardis

July 30, 2014

Who owns the myths and legends of the Great War centenary?

Ben Wellings, Monash University and Shanti Sumartojo, RMIT University

When prime minister Tony Abbott declared at Villers-Bretonneux that “no place on earth has been more densely sown with Australian sacrifice than these fields in France”, Australian attention focused again…

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