Geschichte in den Social Media

This study is an analytical description of specific cultures of remembrance in social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest) on the history of National Socialism and the Holocaust. On the one hand, the study describes memory discourses that have been developing specific narratives within powerful and popular memory cultures since 1945 and are now manifesting themselves in media-specific, transformed form in concrete narrations in social media. On the other hand, the study analyzes the constitution of narratives about National Socialism and the Holocaust in social media not only as discursive formations, but also as communicative memory processes in the specific materialities of the concrete digital memory media.