Abstract
This study examines the relations between memory, social media experience, and testimony in the Eva Stories Instagram project. By conducting a combined visual and multimodal analysis of the stories, as well as a close analysis of the relations between social media experience and testimony, we claim that Eva Stories establishes a new responsive space for remembering the Holocaust. This space enables users to inscribe themselves into mediated Holocaust memory and to become media witnesses through the co-creation of socially mediated experiences. The self-inscription of the user is made possible by three interrelated modes of media witnessing, which continuously evoke user engagement. These new modes, we argue, indicate a new kind of agency in relation to media witnessing: the ability to testify on one’s own present social media engagement with mediated memory, and become a witness to it.
Original language | American English |
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Pages (from-to) | 202-226 |
Number of pages | 25 |
Journal | New Media and Society |
Volume | 24 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s) 2020.
Keywords
- Co-creation
- Eva Stories
- Holocaust
- Israel
- commemoration
- media witnessing
- memory
- social media