{"product_id":"remember-me-memory-and-forgetting-in-the-digital-age-hardback-9781509545032","title":"Remember Me; Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age (Hardback) 9781509545032","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRemember Me\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMemory and Forgetting in the Digital Age\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavide Sisto (Author), Alice Kilgarriff (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509545032, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 23 April 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e160 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.8 x 14.2 x 2 cm, 0.318 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘In \u003ci\u003eRemember Me\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTamara Kneese, University of San Francisco\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the end of December draws near, Facebook routinely sends users a short video entitled ‘Your Year on Facebook’. It lasts about a minute and brings together the images and posts that received the highest number of comments and likes over the last year. The video is rounded off with a message from Facebook that reads: ‘Sometimes, looking back helps us remember what matters most. Thanks for being here.’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt is this ‘looking back’, increasingly the focus of social networks, that is the inspiration behind Davide Sisto’s brilliant reflection on how our relationship with remembering and forgetting is changing in the digital era. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis timely and thoughtful reflection on memory and forgetting in the digital age will be of interest to students and scholars in media studies and to anyone concerned with the ways our social and personal lives are changing in a world increasingly shaped by social media and the internet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTable of contents:Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Social Networks and Looking Back \u003cbr\u003e The past is just a story we tell our followers \u003cbr\u003e Facebook and Looking Back: #10YearsChallenge, On This Day, Memories\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter One. From Social Networks to Digital Archives\u003cbr\u003eThe Twenty Days of Turin: Facebook in 1977\u003cbr\u003eNaked in front of the Computer: Social Networks in the 1990s \u003cbr\u003eThe World Doubled: Reincarnation or the Cocaine of the Future? \u003cbr\u003eBlogs, Forums, Mailing Lists: A New Life in 56K\u003cbr\u003eThe Era of Shared Passions: An Epidemic of Digital Memories \u003cbr\u003eDigital Memory as Crazed Mayonnaise: The Past is Emancipated, Identities Multiply\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two. Collective Cultural Autobiographies and Encyclopedias of the Dead 2.0 \u003cbr\u003eExperiments in Collective Cultural Autobiography\u003cbr\u003eCopy and Paste: Writing About Oneself is Like Summing Up the History of the Universe \u003cbr\u003eCancer Bloggers: My Message is My Body\u003cbr\u003eStories of Cancer Bloggers on YouTube and Facebook\u003cbr\u003eFacebook: Encyclopedia of the Dead 2.0?\u003cbr\u003eAutobiographical Memory: Inventing a Forgotten Past\u003cbr\u003eDisinterred Bodies: Social Networks and Data Flows as Archives \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Three. Total Recall, Digital Immortality, Retromania\u003cbr\u003eBecoming the Database of Ourselves: Lifelogging and Video-camera Memory \u003cbr\u003eThe Memobile: From Total Recall to Digital Immortality\u003cbr\u003eThe Memory Remains: The Life of Memories Post-Mortem\u003cbr\u003e Mind-Uploading as a Declaration of Independence for Memories \u003cbr\u003eInsomnia Inside a Garbage Heap: Funes, or of a Life that Never Forgets \u003cbr\u003eCreating Space in Memory: Forgetting and Sleep as Forms of Resistance \u003cbr\u003eThe Web as a Melancholy Receptacle of Regret: Hollie Gazzard, The Last Message Received, Wartherapy\u003cbr\u003eRetromania and Sad Passions: The End of Nostalgia and the Loss of the Future\u003cbr\u003eSan Junipero Exists and Lives in Facebook\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Digital Inheritance and a Return to Oblivion\u003cbr\u003eDigital Inheritance: What to Do with our Own Memories?\u003cbr\u003eThe Value of Oblivion and the Joy of Being Forgotten \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441807978776,"sku":"9781509545032","price":42.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509545032.jpg?v=1785026376","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/remember-me-memory-and-forgetting-in-the-digital-age-hardback-9781509545032","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}