Instamemories: Reviving History in Digital Memory Culture?

Description

Social media have changed the ways in which we engage with history and memory. While it used to be journalists, authors and museums – the so-called memory agents – who had an impact on what and how people remember individually and collectively, different groups of people can now contribute to mediatized remembering. Some have created accounts of historical figures on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. These accounts pursue different aims and take a variety of different approaches. In this article, we present a typology of historic accounts on Instagram. On a conceptual level, we see these accounts as contributions to a polyphony of memory. While there is great potential in broadening the scope of mediatized remembering, the presented findings also raise questions about conveying history beyond formal education.

Period	30 Jun 2022
Held at	Communication Studies
Degree of Recognition	International