Facing the Past, Talking the Future. The Role of Collective Memory in the Ethnic, Cultural, and Historical Borderland ****************************************************************************************** * Ludmiła Władyniak ****************************************************************************************** Abstract The paper presents the results of research conducted in the town of Teplice, in the Czech- borderland. The assumption of the study is that the communicative memory in the region of borderland is a process that involves no members of a borderland region, but also documents of memory, in this case visual document Internet. This process of creating communicative memory occurs in a hermeneutical triangle the communication / interaction between memory users, memory makers, and visual objects of The meaning of the particular elements of the borderland collective memory is constantly n objective of the discussed research is to study the role that communicative memory plays i ethnic, and historical borderland. Keywords: collective memory; visual analysis; photo-elicitation interview; borderland Článek v PDF ke stažení [ URL "LM-1116-version1-wladyniak.pdf"] Ludmiła Władyniak [ URL "LM-1121.html "]