- Title:
- Holocaust Memory and Visuality in the Age of Social Media
- Creator:
- Lundrigan, Meghan
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Degree Awarded:
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Subjects:
- European History Museology
- Geographical Focus:
- Online Auschwitz Berlin US Holocaust Museum
- Supporting Materials:
- n/a
- Description:
- Everyday people make use of Instagram to visually share their experiences encountering Holocaust memory. Whether individuals are sharing their photos from Auschwitz, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, or of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, this dissertation uncovers the impetus to capture and share these images by the thousands. Using visuality as a framework for analyzing how the Holocaust has been seen, photographed, and communicated historically, this dissertation argues that these individual digital images function as objects of postmemory, contributing to and cultivating an accessible visual and digital archive. Sharing these images on Instagram results in a visual, grassroots archival space where networked Holocaust visuality and memory can flourish.
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- Lundrigan, Meghan. 2019. "Holocaust Memory and Visuality in the Age of Social Media", Department of History, Carleton University
- Link to this page:
- https://cuhistory.github.io/grads/items/hist_25.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright the author, all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.