With the passing of the last Holocaust survivors, the end of the “Era of the Witness”, memory culture is shifting from live testimony to digital preservation. My research examines the potency of video games as memory agents, given their popularity as a key medium for engaging with history, especially World War II. This groundbreaking research involves a thorough analysis of three Holocaust-related games, examining both their intentions and impacts.

My research explores how marginalized communities use digital platforms to reclaim historical narratives, engage in cultural resistance, and shape alternative epistemologies. Drawing on historical and contemporary sources, I examine how AI technologies mediate collective memory and representation. The analysis highlights the Mizrahi grandmother as a symbol of emotional knowledge and intergenerational resilience, through whom women reclaim cultural memory and transform traditional roles into feminist pride.

My research examines the media use of irregular migrants in the cruise ship industry and how they navigate a constrained media ecosystem reflecting the communication challenges they face. It was based on interviews and participant observation during an eight-day cruise. Findings suggest that crew members face “information precarity” due to expensive, limited onboard internet, pushing them to develop adaptive strategies. A key finding is that they form a broader sense of belonging; ecosystems of migration.

My research examines how traditional and digital media shape cultural memory across three generations of Jewish immigrants and the Cyprus exile. I conducted interviews, analyzed newspaper articles, and performed content analysis and netnography of an intergenerational digital community. Findings offer insights into types of memory work, media’s role in constructing intergenerational memory, trust in media to solve family ‘riddles,’ and Holocaust remembrance as a reference for related past events.

My research focuses on the collective memory and commemoration of the 2005 Disengagement Plan, whose principal aim was to resolve the security problem in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel amid a persistent reality of insecurity. This research conducts an in-depth, longitudinal analysis of press coverage of the disengagement, focusing on the relationship between the media and the shaping of collective memory.