The Center for Arab Unity Studies has published the book Digital Palestinian Memory: Forms, Challenges, and Future Prospects, by Dr. Taghreed Ali Al-Soumairy.
The book takes an interdisciplinary approach and belongs to the field of memory studies, answers questions about how Palestinian memory is built and rebuilt in the digital space, and about the patterns of production and reception of this memory. The book seeks to understand the characteristics of Palestinian digital memory, the Palestinian rememberer, the space through which remembering takes place, and to identify the mechanism of the migration of digital memory for Palestinians and its entanglement across time, spaces and different contexts; as well as the practices of forgetting that Palestinians adopt in the digital world. In addition to the roles that digital platforms have made available to the Palestinian public with regard to remembrance.
The book monitors and analyzes the content of eight digital initiatives (individual and institutional) that document Palestinian memory, and also analyzes the experience of those interacting with these platforms through a focused discussion with a number of Palestinian youths, attempting to explore the problems of documentation and remembering by conducting open interviews with six content creators about Palestinian memory on digital platforms. The book concludes that the concept of collective memory has ended in the Palestinian digital space, and the memory of the public has emerged in its place. It also concludes that Digital initiatives have allowed Palestinians to escape all the elements that subject their memory to manipulation and have allowed them to practice reserve forgetting.
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