Framing the Holocaust in popular knowledge: 3 articles about the Holocaust in English, Hebrew and Polish Wikipedia Cover Image

Kształtowanie popularnej wiedzy o Holocauście na przykładzie trzech artykułów z polskiej, hebrajskiej i angielskiej Wikipedii
Framing the Holocaust in popular knowledge: 3 articles about the Holocaust in English, Hebrew and Polish Wikipedia

Author(s): Daniel Wolniewicz-Slomka
Subject(s): History, Jewish studies, Media studies, Communication studies, Sociology, Political history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, Social Informatics, Radical sociology , Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Holocaust; collective memory; content analysis; Wikipedia; Poland; Israel;

Summary/Abstract: The goal of this article is to examine how different events and phenomena related to the Second World War and the Holocaust are framed via Wikipedia articles written in Polish, Hebrew and English. Departing from the pillars of the theory of framing in mass media, the article conducts a content analysis of three articles, in three different languages. The articles under analysis are the following: “Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp”, “The Pogrom in Jedwabne”, and “Righteous Among the Nations”. The analysis will use the four roles of frames as categories, determined by Entman: definition of the problem/phenomenon, causal interpretation, moral evaluation, and treatment recommendation. Analyzing how the articles fulfill each of the roles in the different languages, the research hypothesis is that the framing of the phenomena will differ between the versions, and each version will follow pillars of the collective memory of the Holocaust in its respective country. Findings, however, are not in complete compliance with this hypothesis.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 08
  • Page Range: 29-49
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: English