Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann

Fellowships

Fellowships
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When the COVID-19 pandemic reached Europe in March 2020, among several cultural institutions that closed their doors to visitors were also Holocaust memorials. Most institutions relocated on social media platforms establishing #DigitalMemorials or introducing new mediated forms of #RememberingFromHome. The research project analyses this current shift towards social media memory in context of the digital transformation of Holocaust memory in recent years.

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When the COVID-19 pandemic reached Europe in March 2020, among several cultural institutions that closed their doors to visitors were also Holocaust memorials. Most institutions relocated on social media platforms establishing #DigitalMemorials or introducing new mediated forms of #RememberingFromHome. The research project analyses this current shift towards social media memory in context of the digital transformation of Holocaust memory in recent years.