This article explores diasporic activist memory narration on social media. We analyze the multimodal content and comments on the Instagram account “Armenians in Lebanon” (AiL), Instagram’s affordances, and interview data with their social media manager to understand how memory is narrated, how specific audiences respond to it, and how Instagram as a platform shapes it. We found three temporally non-linear memory activist narratives—“Survival,” “Suffering,” and “Never Forget.” These narratives leverage Instagram’s affordances of visuality, scalability, and interactivity and combine social media branding practices with framing to recount the past so as to serve the diaspora Armenians’ present and future needs of genocide recognition and reparations. In the narrative, Armenians are positioned as both continually suffering because of, and thriving despite of Turkey, as well as committed to extending their quest for genocide recognition into the future.

本文探讨了社交媒体上的流放激进主义者的记忆叙事。我们会分析Instagram帐户“黎巴嫩的亚美尼亚人（AiL）”上的多模式内容和评论，Instagram的服务以及与社交媒体经理的访谈数据，以了解记忆的叙述方式，特定的受众对此有何反应以及Instagram作为平台塑造它。我们发现了三个时间非线性记忆维权主义者的叙述：“生存”，“痛苦”和“永不忘记”。这些叙述利用了Instagram提供的可视性，可扩展性和交互性，并将社交媒体品牌实践与框架结合起来，以回顾过去，从而满足散居亚美尼亚人对种族灭绝和赔偿的当前和未来需求。在叙述中，亚美尼亚人被定位为不断遭受苦难，原因是，