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Hipertekst jako medium postpamięci
Hypertext as a medium of postmemory

The remarks about the Holocaust fixed on Twitter

Author(s): Marta Kaźmierczak
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: KSIĘGARNIA AKADEMICKA Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: hypertext; medium; postmemory; post -oblivion; Holocaust; text

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents hypertext as a matrix of contemporary forms of remembering.This text is a part of research focused on the representations of the Holocauston the Internet. The main thesis of this article is: the ways of remembering ofthe Holocaust on Twitter imply and form also the ways of oblivion of the past.The article consists of four main parts. First part, titled Open cognitive categories,refers to methodological issues. Second part, titled Hypertext as a mediumof postmemory, reveals relations between digital media and contemporary formsof remembering. Third part, titled Almost diary, shows examples of hypertextualrepresentations of the Holocaust on Twitter. Fourth part, titled Two vectors, concernsconfrontation between postmemory and postoblivion of the Holocaust.

  • Issue Year: 12/2015
  • Issue No: 35
  • Page Range: 71-89
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish