Nurturing the pain: audiovisual tributes to the Holocaust on YouTube
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This article examines how digital technology interacts with Holocaust remembrance in post-socialist countries. Using the Lviv pogrom of 1941 as a case study, it explores how Russophone and Ukrainophone web users engage with audiovisual tributes to this event on YouTube. The article scrutinizes user engagement with Holocaust memory on two levels: the level of representation (how the pogrom is represented on YouTube) and the level of interaction (how users interact with tributes to the pogrom). The article suggest that digital media can democratize existing memory practices, but it does not necessarily lead to more pluralist views on the past.
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Holocaust Commemoration Holocaust Memorials Social Media Internet Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial Memory Russian-Speaking Jews
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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in anymedium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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25(4)
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441-466
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Nurturing the pain: audiovisual tributes to the Holocaust on YouTube. 2019: 441-466. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1080/17504902.2018.1468667
