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Yolocaust: Platform Capitalism and Digital Holocaust Commemoration Practices
Tomasz Łysak
tlysak@uw.edu.pl BioP.H.D habilitated, professor at the University of Warsaw, deals with the representations of the Holocaust in various media, psychoanalysis, photography, film, digital media, and autobiography. Editor of the Antologii studiów nad traumą/Anthology of Studies on Trauma (2015) and author of Od kroniki do filmu posttraumatycznego: filmy dokumentalne o Zagładzie(2016). A Fulbright Scholar at the University of Washington in Seattle, the Mellon Foundation at the University of Edinburgh, and the Endeavor Foundation at the University of Chicago. He realizes the National Science Center grant "From a chronicle to a post-traumatic film: documentary films about the Holocaust" (2013–2015).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5476-4917
Warsaw University
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 17 (2021), pages: 358-375
Publication date: 2021-12-20
Abstract
Online commemorations are associated with scandals and faux pases, but many content creators do not intend to offend anybody or become an object of online hate. Aside the existing methods of describing digital commemorations (content analysis, comparisons with the traditional media memory), the article makes use of netnography, that is observation and analysis of Internet users’ behavior. It also examines the ecosystem of the digital media in the context of platform capitalism. The research materials are: the yolocaust.de website, photographs of Auschwitz by Tomasz Lewandowski, and survivor Inge Ginsberg’s heavy metal performances.
Keywords
Yolocaust, platform capitalism, digital Holocaust commemoration, Auschwitz, YouTube.com, Tomasz Lewandowski, Inge Ginsberg
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