Performing the Holocaust on social networks: digitality, transcultural memory and new forms of narrating
Journal Title: Kultura Popularna - Year 2017, Vol 1, Issue 51
Abstract
The Internet and more particularly social networks shape discourses about Holocaust history and memory crucially: The presentation, representation and the discussions on Internet-websites is a paramount example for transcultural mediation processes between history and memory, between commemoration, technology and culture, between institutionalized and public history. The paper will analyze these phenomena using examples from German and English content on the Internet. These examples address the apparent transcultural frictions and indicate that the Internet has an influence on the discourse not only as a medium of acceleration but also as a central medium of public history and politicization. As such, it will mediate, shape, “like”, share, and carry the memory of the Holocaust forward in the future. Still, these performances follow unwritten laws of aesthetics and authorship that have so far characterized the discourses of memory even if they stretch the limits of what has been seen as appropriate by institutionalized memory.<br/><br/>
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Eva Pfanzelter
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