This is a comprehensive study of Holocaust memory in the digital
age of social media and an important examination of 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. 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.
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