The study focuses on creative approaches to digitised audiovisual material with history-related content, both archival sources and professional arts production. User practice is conceptualized as appropriation, which allows inclusion of many different modes from mere sharing of material under one's title and description, through more or less sophisticated remix, to digital manipulation and deepfakes. Applying critical discourse analysis on a selected volume of examples dealing with the Communist history in East-Central Europe, the study offers a historical interpretation of new phenomena connected with general accessibility and pervasive use of the technology by individuals and institutions, as they relate to the nature of human memory and historical consciousness, but also to the historical and archival expertise and curation practice.

Keywords: online culture, audiovisual remediation, online appropriation, memory of Communist past