Bridging cultural studies and learning science: An investigation of social media use for Holocaust memory and education in the digital age

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Acknowledgments

This study was carried out as part of the author’s research project “Teaching and learning about the Holocaust with social media: A learning ecologies perspective”—Doctoral program in “Education and ICT (e-learning),” Universat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain. Thanks to Juliana Elisa Raffaghelli for methodological advice and to Jeffrey Earp for revising the original manuscript.

Data availability statement

The datasets generated during the current study are available in the Zenodo repository, http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3950522

Notes

1 The App may be downloaded from https://www.oculus.com/experiences/go/1596151970428159/

2 Although we prefer the expression “teaching and learning about the Holocaust” according to the IHRA recommendations (IHRA, 2019), for reasons of brevity, studies that deals with teaching and learning about the Holocaust will be labelled as studies about “Holocaust education.”

3 Lurkmore or Lurkomorye is an informal Russian-language MediaWiki-powered online encyclopedia focusing on Internet subcultures, folklore, and memes. As of December 17, 2019, Lurkmore contained 9000 articles. It is one of the most popular humor—as well as internet-meme-related—websites of the Russian Internet (source Wikipedia, consulted on 26/06/2020).

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) “Countering Holocaust Distortion on Social Media. Promoting the positive use of Internet Social Technologies for teaching and learning about the Holocaust” under grant no. 2020-792.

Notes on contributors

Stefania Manca

Stefania Manca is a Research Director at the Institute of Educational Technology of the National Research Council of Italy. She has a Master’s Degree in Education and is a PhD student in Education and ICT (e-learning), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain, with a research project entitled “Teaching and learning about the Holocaust with social media: A learning ecologies perspective.” She has been active in the field of educational technology, technology-based learning, distance education and e-learning since 1995. Her research interests are social media and social network sites in formal and informal learning, teacher education, professional development, digital scholarship, and Student Voice-supported participatory practices in schools. She is the project coordinator of the IHRA grant no. 2020-792 “Countering Holocaust distortion on Social Media. Promoting the positive use of Internet social technologies for teaching and learning about the Holocaust,” which includes the University of Weingarten (Germany), the University of Florence (Italy) and the following participating organizations: Yad Vashem (Israel), Mémorial de la Shoah de Paris (France) and Mauthausen Memorial (Austria).