#NeverForget vs. #NeverHappened: Holocaust Commemoration and Contestation on Social Media

This project analyses the contemporary commemoration and contestation of the Holocaust and its victims on social media during its anniversaries. It involves an international and interdisciplinary team with expertise in digital sociology, anthropology, and memory, media, and communication studies. Focusing on Swedish, English, and German linguistic settings, the project relies on data including manually and computationally collected social media content, surveys and semi-structured questionnaires, and digital ethnographic material. The project aims to generate new knowledge, of relevance to a range of societal stakeholders, at a time when memory of the Holocaust is not only being eroded by the continued passing of its living survivors but also faces the heightened risks associated with a contemporary political landscape characterised by increasingly visible polarisation, especially online. 

Presenters

• Prof. Simon Lindgren, Umeå University, Sweden
• Prof. Victoria Grace Richardson Walden, University of Sussex, UK
• Prof. Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• Assoc. Prof. Samuel Merrill, Umeå University, Sweden
• Dr. Eric Boyd, Umeå University, Sweden

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