Remember me: memory and forgetting in the digital age
Cambridge; Medford, MA:
Polity Press
(2021), viii, 155 pp., bibliogr. p.138-147, index
ISBN 978-1-5095-4504-9 (pbk); 978-1-5095-4505-6 (online)
Other Editions: Italian ed.: Ricordati di me: La rivoluzione digitale tra memoria e oblio. Torin: Bollati Boringhieri editore, 2020
"... The past does not really exist: it is only a story we tell ourselves. But what happens when we tell this story not only to ourselves but also to our followers, when it is recorded not only on our social media pages but also on the pages of hundreds or thousands of others, making it something that can be viewed and referenced forever? Social media networks are becoming vast digital archives in which the past merges seamlessly with the present, slowly erasing our capacity to forget. And yet at the same time, our memory is being outsourced to systems that we don't control and that could become obsolete at any time, cutting us off from our memories and risking total oblivion." (Back cover)
Contents
Introduction. Social Networks and Looking Back, 1
1 From Social Networks to Digital Archives, 13
2 Collective Cultural Autobiographies and Encyclopedias of the Dead 2.0, 47
3 Total Recall, Digital Immortality, Retromania, 81
Conclusion. Digital Inheritance and a Return to Oblivion, 118
1 From Social Networks to Digital Archives, 13
2 Collective Cultural Autobiographies and Encyclopedias of the Dead 2.0, 47
3 Total Recall, Digital Immortality, Retromania, 81
Conclusion. Digital Inheritance and a Return to Oblivion, 118
