Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age

ISBN-13: 9781509545049 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 160 str.

Davide Sisto; Alice Kilgarriff

Recenzje

'In Remember Me, Davide Sisto takes readers on a delightful journey through the annals of internet history. His deft theorizing of social media, past and present, reveals how digital media impact both intimate and collective relationships to time and memory.' Tamara Kneese, University of San Francisco

Spis treści

Table of contents:Acknowledgements Introduction. Social Networks and Looking Back The past is just a story we tell our followers Facebook and Looking Back: #10YearsChallenge, On This Day, Memories Chapter One. From Social Networks to Digital Archives The Twenty Days of Turin: Facebook in 1977 Naked in front of the Computer: Social Networks in the 1990s The World Doubled: Reincarnation or the Cocaine of the Future? Blogs, Forums, Mailing Lists: A New Life in 56K The Era of Shared Passions: An Epidemic of Digital Memories Digital Memory as Crazed Mayonnaise: The Past is Emancipated, Identities Multiply Chapter Two. Collective Cultural Autobiographies and Encyclopedias of the Dead 2.0 Experiments in Collective Cultural Autobiography Copy and Paste: Writing About Oneself is Like Summing Up the History of the Universe Cancer Bloggers: My Message is My Body Stories of Cancer Bloggers on YouTube and Facebook Facebook: Encyclopedia of the Dead 2.0? Autobiographical Memory: Inventing a Forgotten Past Disinterred Bodies: Social Networks and Data Flows as Archives Chapter Three. Total Recall, Digital Immortality, Retromania Becoming the Database of Ourselves: Lifelogging and Video-camera Memory The Memobile: From Total Recall to Digital Immortality The Memory Remains: The Life of Memories Post-Mortem Mind-Uploading as a Declaration of Independence for Memories Insomnia Inside a Garbage Heap: Funes, or of a Life that Never Forgets Creating Space in Memory: Forgetting and Sleep as Forms of Resistance The Web as a Melancholy Receptacle of Regret: Hollie Gazzard, The Last Message Received, Wartherapy Retromania and Sad Passions: The End of Nostalgia and the Loss of the Future San Junipero Exists and Lives in Facebook Conclusion. Digital Inheritance and a Return to Oblivion Digital Inheritance: What to Do with our Own Memories? The Value of Oblivion and the Joy of Being Forgotten Bibliography Notes Index

O autorze

Davide Sisto is a researcher in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Turin.