Amanda Burgess | Mediating memory: Remembering Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima and Nagasaki through amateur tourist photography on Instagram
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Instagram is frequently used by tourists to share experiences at memorial sites around the world. Traumatic moments in history are acknowledged and remembered on Instagram through selfies and self-portraits, built environment photography, videography and Carousel posts also known as “photo dumps” where several images or videos can be shared at once. Through content analysis, I propose to compare Instagram posts shared in 2025 across three popular World War II memorial locations: Pearl Harbor, Hi