This book explores the diverse range of practical and theoretical challenges and possibilities that digital technologies and platforms pose for Holocaust memory, education and research. From social media to virtual reality, 360-degree imaging to machine learning, there can be no doubt that digital media penetrate practice in these fields. As the Holocaust moves beyond living memory towards solely mediated memory, it is imperative that we pay critical attention to the way digital technologies are shaping public memory and education and research. Bringing together the voices of heritage and educational professionals, and academics from the arts and humanities and the social sciences, this interdisciplinary collection explores the practicalities of creating digital Holocaust projects, the educational value of such initiatives, and considers the extent to which digital technologies change the way we remember, learn about and research the Holocaust, thinking through issues such as ethics, embodiment, agency, community, and immersion. At its core, this volume interrogates the extent to which digital interventions in these fields mark an epochal shift in Holocaust memory, education and research, or whether they continue to be shaped by long-standing debates and guidelines developed in the broadcast era.
Author(s): Victoria Grace Walden
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 330
City: Cham
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Defining the Digital in Digital Holocaust Memory, Education and Research
Structure of This Book
References
Part I: (New) Dimensions in Testimony
Virtually Part of the Family: The Last Goodbye and Digital Holocaust Witnessing
Performing the Witness
Performing the Family
The Last Goodbye VR Experience
The Witnessing Text
Conclusion
References
Realms of Digital Memory: Methodological Approaches to 360° Testimony on Location
The Last Goodbye
An Empathy Machine?
Methodological Considerations of 360° Testimony on Location
360° ToL: Life Histories
360° ToL: Location Vignettes
Preparing for the Testimony Collection
360° ToL Testimony Collection Process
Laser Scanning and Photogrammetry
The Current 360° ToL Collection
Volumetric Oral History
Conclusion
References
The Production of German- and Russian-Language Interactive Biographies: (Trans)National Holocaust Memory between the Broadcast and Hyperconnective Ages
The Holocaust Archive in a Hyperconnected and Transnational Age
Theoretical and Ethical Implications for Dimensions in Testimony in the Russian- and German-Speaking Context
Pre-Production Process
Production Process
Post-Production Process
Conclusion
References
Part II: (Web)sites of Memory
MEMOZE: Memory Places, Memory Spaces: ‘Glocal’ Holocaust Education through an Online Research Portal
MEMOZE: Modern Mediation Strategies of Testimony and Space
Project Context
The Online Research Portal: Technical Properties, Design and Conception
The Space of Memory
The Space of Transfer
The Space of Transgenerational Dialogue
The Room of Names
Empty Spaces
The Cultural Space
Conclusion
References
Visualising Evidence and Landscapes of Atrocities: An Ethical Perspective
Visualising Sites of Atrocities
Existing Frameworks
Case Study: Sylt Camp
Explore Lager Sylt
Qualitative Studies
Focus Groups
Interviews
Questionnaire Surveying
Results and Discussion
Accountability
Education and Communication
Presentation
Conclusion
References
Active Learning in Digital Heritage: Introducing Geo-localisation, VR and AR at Holocaust Historical Sites
Historical and Cultural Learning
Educational Technologies in Historical and Cultural Learning
(Adaptive) Hypermedia
Virtual and Augmented Reality
Tutoring Systems
The Active Learning in Digitally Enhanced Environments Paradigm
The Bergen-Belsen Memorial
The Future Memory Tablet Application
Our Previous Studies
Our Current Studies
Report of Organised-Visit Tests
The Impact of the Active Learning in Digitally Enhanced Spaces Approach on Subjective States of the User
Contribution of Virtual Reality to Historical Awareness
Discussion
Conclusion
References
Part III: (Virtual) Memory Communities
Becoming the ‘Holocaust Police’? The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum’s Authority on Social Media
The ‘Experiment’
Modelling Representation
The ‘Virtual Community’
The ‘Holocaust Police’
Conclusion
References
i-Memory: Selfies and Self-Witnessing in #Uploading_Holocaust (2016)
From the ‘Era of the Witness’ to the ‘Era of the User’
Self-Enacting and Self-Witnessing
Between Narcissism and Agency
Doing Memory in the Digital Age
References
Playing Pretend on Social Media
The Social Media Projects
A Digital Playground
Literature and Play
Educational Applications
Conclusion
References
Afterword: Digital Holocaust Memory Futures: Through Paradigms of Immersion and Interactivity and Beyond
Doing Media Archaeology
Immersion
Interactivity
From Immersion and Interactivity to Mixed Reality and Intra-Action
References
Appendix: Catalogue of the Current 360° ToL Collection
A1: Trip One: Pilot 360° ToL with Ed Mosberg
A2: Trip Two: Four 360° ToL Life History Interviews in Association with the International March of the Living
A3: Trip Three: 360° ToL Life History with Aron Bell
A4: Trip Four: Six 360° ToL Location Vignettes during the ABSM 75th Commemoration of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau
Index
