Editing Anzac Day (section)

==Criticism of some commemorations==
For decades, there have been concerns that the participation of young people in Anzac Day events has injected a carnival element into what is traditionally a solemn occasion. The change was highlighted by a rock concert-style performance at the 2005 Anzac Cove commemoration during which attendees drank and slept between [[headstone]]s. After the event the site was left strewn with rubbish.<ref name=Rubbish>Yuko Narushima, [http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/call-for-a-cap-on-gallipoli-crowds/2008/04/03/1206851105571.html Call for a cap on Gallipoli crowds, ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 25 April 2006] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080407063256/http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/call-for-a-cap-on-gallipoli-crowds/2008/04/03/1206851105571.html |date=7 April 2008}}</ref><ref name=Rubbish2>Andra Jackson and Doug Conway, [http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/RSL-chiefs-dismayed-by-Gallipoli-rubbish/2005/04/26/1114462039436.html RSL chiefs dismayed by Gallipoli rubbish, ''The Age'', 27 April 2005] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080122011641/http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/RSL-chiefs-dismayed-by-Gallipoli-rubbish/2005/04/26/1114462039436.html |date=22 January 2008}}</ref><ref name=Haywood>Ben Haywood, [http://www.education.theage.com.au/pagedetail.asp?intpageid=1460&strsection=students&intsectionid=0 ANZAC Day] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719234334/http://education.theage.com.au/pagedetail.asp?intpageid=1460&strsection=students&intsectionid=0 |date=19 July 2008}}, ''The Age'', 2 May 2005.</ref> In 2013, historian [[Jonathan King (historian)|Jonathan King]] said that "escalating commercial pressures threaten to turn the centenary [of the landing at Gallipoli] into a [[Big Day Out]]".<ref name=King />

Digital change has been the focus of recent concern. The centenary commemoration of Anzac and the First World War has coincided with the emergence of a mature internet and comprehensive use of social media. According to Tom Sear, a new era of "digital commemoration" of Anzac Day has begun.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/fapi/datastream/unsworks:44440/bindc10af22-38ba-467e-9528-f5ed9cb246d0?view=true|title='Dawn Servers: Anzac Day 2015 and Hyperconnective Commemoration', in West B (ed.), War Memory and Commemoration|publisher=Routledge|pages=67–88|last=Sear|first=Tom|website=unsworks.unsw.edu.au|access-date=30 December 2018|archive-date=5 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605221005/http://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/fapi/datastream/unsworks:44440/bindc10af22-38ba-467e-9528-f5ed9cb246d0?view=true|url-status=live}}</ref> Anzac Day selfies, memes, virtual reality Anzac avatars, Facebook posts and tweeting are part of a new participative, and immersive experience of the day. Digital media have personalised the experience of Anzac Day, focusing on sharing the activities online. In a time when the line between being online and offline is increasingly blurred, there has been a turn towards commemorative activities that seek to generate empathy and connection between contemporary audiences and historical subjects through digital media.<ref>{{citation|last=UNSW Canberra|title=First World War Facebook centenary animations in France and Australia|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIw_g5Oyx2o|access-date=30 December 2018|archive-date=22 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190722100208/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIw_g5Oyx2o&gl=US&hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref> Leading news organisations such as the ABC<ref>{{cite web|url=http://about.abc.net.au/press-releases/launch-of-abcnews1915/|title=Launch of @ABCNews1915|website=About the ABC|language=en-AU|access-date=30 December 2018|archive-date=13 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913061625/http://about.abc.net.au/press-releases/launch-of-abcnews1915/|url-status=live}}</ref> and News Corp<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anzaclive.com.au/|title=AnzacLive|website=anzaclive.com.au|access-date=30 December 2018|archive-date=22 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122063209/http://www.anzaclive.com.au/|url-status=live}}</ref> live tweeted and made Facebook posts about the original Anzac landings in 2015. These online forums, and their capacity for personalised feedback, have disquieted some historians, who are concerned about the distance, solemnity and critical perspective of traditional Anzac Day commemorations being lost.<ref>{{cite book|title=What's wrong with ANZAC?: the militarisation of Australian history|last=Lake|first=Marilyn|author-link=Marilyn Lake|isbn=978-1-4596-0495-7|page=4|oclc=912368259|date=2010|publisher=ReadHowYouWant.com}}</ref><ref>{{citation|last=McKenna|first=Mark|chapter=The history anxiety|pages=561–580|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-44575-8|doi=10.1017/cho9781107445758.055|title=The Cambridge History of Australia|year=2013}}</ref> Equally others emphasise how, particularly young people, using these technologies of the present, play a role in connecting wider communities of Anzac Day commemorators.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/fapi/datastream/unsworks:44110/bin5e1185fd-daf1-4f54-a89b-79512f11a218?view=true|title='Uncanny Valleys and Anzac Avatars: Scaling a Postdigital Gallipoli', in Frances R; Scates B (ed.), Beyond Gallipoli: New Perspectives on ANZAC, Monash University Press|pages=55–82|last=Sear|first=Tom|website=unsworks.unsw.edu.au|access-date=30 December 2018|archive-date=25 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171025203435/http://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/fapi/datastream/unsworks:44110/bin5e1185fd-daf1-4f54-a89b-79512f11a218?view=true|url-status=live}}</ref>