Editorial – Issue 18
The distribution of digital technologies opened unprecedented possibilities for remediating and reshaping individual and collective trauma. New formats of trauma transmission and trauma processing employ structural affordances of digital platforms …
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From Individual Trauma to Frozen Currents: Conceptualising Digital Trauma Studies
This essay presents digital trauma studies, a novel and interdisciplinary approach to trauma research. Digital trauma studies scrutinize the impact of technological innovation on the transmission and processing of individual …
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Framing the Holocaust Online: Memory of the Babi Yar Massacres on Wikipedia
The article explores how a notorious case of Second World War atrocities in Ukraine – the Babi Yar massacres of 1941-1943 – is represented and interpreted on Wikipedia. Using qualitative …
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Everything for the Lulz: Historical Memes and World War II Memory on Lurkomor’e
The article explores interactions between digital media and cultural memory in post-Soviet countries by focusing on internet memes related to World War II. It introduces the concept of historical internet …
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Scraping the Monumental: Stepan Bandera through the Lens of Quantitative Memory Studies
In this essay we use the example of Stepan Bandera to demonstrate the effectiveness of web-scraping methods as a tool to explore how people interact with memory content online. Using …
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