Edited by Dr Victoria Walden (Senior Lecturer in Media, University of Sussex), Digital Holocaust Memory explores the opportunities and challenges that ‘the digital’ brings to Holocaust memory.
Digital Holocaust Memory has three aims:
- To map the digital Holocaust memoryscape, including institutional and amateur projects
- To interrogate the ‘newness’ of digital Holocaust memory and understand it in relation to media, museum and memory histories as well as within contemporary digital logics and cultures
- To establish a network of heritage and archive professionals, academics, amateur and professional media producers, and digital audiences/users to explore potential digital futures for Holocaust memory together.
Digital Holocaust Memory aims to spark conversations which dismantle national, cultural and expert level silos. What happens when producers of popular media or amateur content online speak and work more closely with Holocaust institutions? What happens where we bring media studies to bear on Holocaust and genocide memory? What happens when we bring together people with different types of expertise across numerous nations? How can we negotiate the conventions of popular media with the solemness and seriousness of the Holocaust without distorting this past? Whilst Holocaust memory practices have influenced commemoration about other genocides, what can Holocaust memory and education learn from the way more recent tragedies have been marked? How might thinking through all of this help us futureproof digital interventions in this field?