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This book has traced the unprecedented growth and intensification of mediated commemorative practices, through well-documented empirical evidence from the spring 2020 worldwide lockdown period and shows how it did leave a legacy that will be possible to trace in analysis of continuations and changes in commemoration throughout the twenty-first century. While it may be said that there has been no real “paradigm shift” in the framing of memory during covid, as an inclusive and participatory platform, this book draws attention to the ways in which memory during covid built on pre-covid trends and became yet another important landmark in the digitalization of memory studies, sha** knowledge production in our field, empirically and methodologically alike.
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Fridman, O., Gensburger, S. (2024). Epilogue: Did the Pandemic Change the Future of Memory?. In: Fridman, O., Gensburger, S. (eds) The COVID-19 Pandemic and Memory. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34597-5_15
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