{"id":4859,"date":"2025-01-27T19:39:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T18:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/?post_type=hbi-news&#038;p=4859"},"modified":"2025-01-27T19:39:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T18:39:28","slug":"how-german-speaking-memorial-sites-engage-with-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"hbi-news","link":"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/hbi-news\/news\/how-german-speaking-memorial-sites-engage-with-tiktok\/","title":{"rendered":"How German-Speaking Memorial Sites Engage with TikTok to Preserve Remembrance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How are concentration camp memorials using the platform TikTok for remembrance work? Liv Ohlsen and <a href=\"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/employee\/hans-ulrich-wagner\/\">Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner<\/a> take a look at the so-called Historytoks for Generation Z and show in a three-part blog series how concentration camp memorials are taking up this new form of digital remembrance work on their TikTok accounts.<\/p>\n<p>The blog series \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/valuepast.hypotheses.org\/\">On the Digital Remembrance Work of German-Speaking Memorials on TikTok<\/a>\u201d was created as part of the interdisciplinary Leibniz research alliance \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leibniz-wert-der-vergangenheit.de\/en\/\">Value of the Past<\/a>\u201d. The third part of the series was published on 27 January 2025, the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp.<\/p>\n<h2>Overview:<\/h2>\n<h3>Part 1: #learnontiktok<\/h3>\n<p>Liv Ohlsen and Hans-Ulrich Wagner discuss the origins and early days of memorial work on TikTok. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/valuepast.hypotheses.org\/\">here<\/a> for the first part.<\/p>\n<h3>Part 2: Storytelling<\/h3>\n<p>Analysis of the storytelling of selected accounts. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/valuepast.hypotheses.org\/\">here<\/a> for the second part.<\/p>\n<h3>Part 3: Digital Stumbling Blocks<\/h3>\n<p>First summary and identification of open questions for the future of digital remembrance work. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/valuepast.hypotheses.org\/3058\">here<\/a> for the third part.<\/p>\n<p>Further information on the Leibniz Research Alliance \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/valuepast.hypotheses.org\/\">Value of the Past<\/a>\u201d can be found on the alliance&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/de\/@kadircelep?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Kadir Celep<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/de\/fotos\/brennende-kerzen-auf-dem-boden-sQLurGgw1SA?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":4854,"template":"","categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4859","hbi-news","type-hbi-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How German-Speaking Memorial Sites Engage with TikTok to Preserve Remembrance - Leibniz Institut f\u00fcr Medienforschung | Leibniz Institute for Media Research<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How are concentration camp memorials using the platform TikTok for remembrance work? 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