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Witnessing Eva Stories: Media witnessing and self-inscription in social media memory | Faculty of Social Sciences

Witnessing Eva Stories: Media witnessing and self-inscription in social media memory

Citation:

Lital Henig and Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Tobias . 2022. “Witnessing Eva Stories: Media Witnessing And Self-Inscription In Social Media Memory”. New Media & Society, 24, Pp. 202-226.

Abstract:

This study examines the relations between memory, social media experience, and testimony in the Eva Stories Instagram project. By conducting a combined visual and multimodal analysis of the stories, as well as a close analysis of the relations between social media experience and testimony, we claim that Eva Stories establishes a new responsive space for remembering the Holocaust. This space enables users to inscribe themselves into mediated Holocaust memory and to become media witnesses through the co-creation of socially mediated experiences. The self-inscription of the user is made possible by three interrelated modes of media witnessing, which continuously evoke user engagement. These new modes, we argue, indicate a new kind of agency in relation to media witnessing: the ability to testify on one’s own present social media engagement with mediated memory, and become a witness to it.