Holocaust Memory in the Digital Mediascape

This is a comprehensive study of Holocaust memory in the digital age of social media. Focusing on the five most popular digital platforms in use today: Flickr , Instagram , YouTube , Twitter and Facebook , it examines how social technology affects the way history is made and circulated online. Social media has become a place where memories of the Holocaust take shape through user-driven content shared in elaborately interconnected communication networks. Alongside curated exhibits, documentaries and scholarly research, smartphone photos, short videos and online texts act as windows into the popular consciousness. They document how everyday people make sense of the crime of genocide, presenting unique challenges to historians. Does participatory media create a different understanding of genocide than more traditional forms of writing? How does expertise manifest in the digital public sphere? Do YouTube tourist videos and concentration camp selfies undermine the seriousness of the Holocaust and Holocaust Studies by extension? Holocaust Memory in the Digital Mediascape provides valuable answers to these questions and much more. The book comes with a range of helpful images and it also analyzes the way vernacular memory around the Holocaust and postwar reckoning and reconciliation is mobilized as well as contested in the digital sphere. It is an important volume for all scholars and students of the Holocaust, its history and memory.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer V Evans, Jennifer V. Evans, Erica Fagen, Megha Lundrigan, Meghan Lundrigan
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.06.2025
• EAN: 9781350325326
• ISBN: 978-1-350-32532-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 232 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Second World War, The Holocaust, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater