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Memories and Narratives of the Holocaust in Digital Space
The World Wide Web (WWW) and digitisation have become important sites and tools for the history of the Holocaust and its commemoration. Today, some memory institutions use the Internet at a high professional level as a venue for self-presentation and as a forum for the discussion of Holocaust-related topics for potentially international, transcultural and interdisciplinary user groups. At the same time, it is not always the established institutions that utilise the technical possibilities and potential of the Internet to the maximum. Creative and sometimes controversial new forms of storytelling of the Holocaust or more traditional ways of remembering the genocide presented in a new way with digital media often come from people or groups who are not in the realm of influence of the large memorial sites, museums and archives. Such "private" stagings have experienced a particular upswing since the boom of social media. This democratisation of Holocaust memory and history is crucial though it is as yet undecided how much it will ultimately reinforce old structures and cultural, regional or other inequalities or reinvent them. The "Digital space" as an arbitrary and limitless archive for the mediation of the Holocaust spanning from Russia to Brazil is at the centre of the essays collected in this volume. This space is also considered as a forum for negotiation, a meeting place and a battleground for generations and stories and as such offers the opportunity to reconsider the transgenerational transmission of trauma, family histories and communication. Here it becomes evident: there are new societal intentions and decision-making structures that exceed the capabilities of traditional mass media and thrive on the participation of a broad public
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Does it get better with time? Web search consistency and relevance in the visual representation of the Holocaust -- Participatory memory -- historiography -- research? Exploring representations of the Holocaust on social media -- Digital Holocaust memory: A study of Italian Holocaust museums and their social media users -- The historian influencer: Mediating and transmitting Holocaust memory on social media in Brazil -- The media network of memory: Sharing Holocaust stories on TikTok and collaborative writing of "memory books" -- #Connectedmemories: Non-persecuted German witnesses of National Socialism on YouTube -- Rendering forgotten places of NS terror visible -- Social media at memorial sites: Are we sure this is a good idea? -- The impact of Nebraska's collective memory of the Holocaust via digital exploration -- "Follow for more spookiness": The dybbuk box, networked digital Holocaust memory and interactive narrative on social media -- Digital trauma processing in social media groups: Transgenerational Holocaust trauma on Facebook -- List of contributors -- Index.
Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics Series v.8