TY - JOUR
T1 - It happened before and it will happen again
T2 - Online user comments as a noncommemorative site of holocaust remembrance
AU - Yadlin-Segal, Aya
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Wayne State University Press.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - By addressing the vernacular versus official memory dyad in collective memory studies, this article explores user comments on four Israeli news websites that covered the Iranian film A Separation’s (Asghar Farhadi, 2011) Academy Award win for best foreign language film in 2012. Against the backdrop of Israeli-Iranian relations, this study focuses on the use of the Holocaust as an interpretive framework and new media users’ construction of collective memory. Through qualitative analysis of user comments, I show how the memory of the Holocaust supports a circular narrative of Jewish history, intertwining past, present, and future events into a single metanarrative of persecution. The study also emphasizes how remembrance goes beyond intentionally commemorative practices, and questions the place of online platforms in enabling and constraining alternative and critical political discourses.
AB - By addressing the vernacular versus official memory dyad in collective memory studies, this article explores user comments on four Israeli news websites that covered the Iranian film A Separation’s (Asghar Farhadi, 2011) Academy Award win for best foreign language film in 2012. Against the backdrop of Israeli-Iranian relations, this study focuses on the use of the Holocaust as an interpretive framework and new media users’ construction of collective memory. Through qualitative analysis of user comments, I show how the memory of the Holocaust supports a circular narrative of Jewish history, intertwining past, present, and future events into a single metanarrative of persecution. The study also emphasizes how remembrance goes beyond intentionally commemorative practices, and questions the place of online platforms in enabling and constraining alternative and critical political discourses.
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U2 - 10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.5.1.0024
DO - 10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.5.1.0024
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AN - SCOPUS:85038840286
SN - 2169-0324
VL - 5
SP - 24
EP - 47
JO - Jewish Film and New Media
JF - Jewish Film and New Media
IS - 1
M1 - 12
ER -