What is digital memory? How are digital technologies changing what we remember and how? Records of the past used to be expensive and bulky to keep, and difficult to access. But digital media technologies provide cheap data storage and easy data retrieval, with mobile networks enabling unprecedented global accessibility and participation in the creation of memories. Save As… Digital Memories brings together leading international scholars to address on-line memorials, blogging, mobile phones, social networking sites and the digital archive. They focus on topical subjects such the 'war on terror', cyberpunk, the Holocaust, digital remixing and the virtual museum. Trans-disciplinary and original, the book will appeal to those interested in how digital media technologies shape human memory. Providing an accessible and bold introduction to the subject of digital memory, each essay shows how digital technologies are changing human memory discourses, practices and forms, as well as the way we conceptualise memory itself.
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
PART I: DIGITAL MEMORY DISCOURSES
The Mediatization of Memory; A.Hoskins
Saving Lives: Digital Biography and Life Writing; P.L.Arthur
Rewind, Remix, Rewrite: Digital and Virtual Memory in Cyberpunk Cinema; S.E.Matrix
PART II: DIGITAL MEMORY FORMS
Memobilia: The Mobile Phone and the Emergence of Wearable Memories; A.Reading
Remembering and Recovering Shanghai: Seven Jewish Families Reconnect in Cyberspace; A.Jakubowicz
Archiving the Gaze: Relation-Images, Adaptation and Digital Mnemotechnologies; B.Lessard
PART III: DIGITAL MEMORY PRACTICES
MyMemories?: Personal Digital Archive Fever and Facebook; J.Garde-Hansen
The Online Brazilian Museu da Pessoa; M.Clarke
Digital Storytelling and the Performance of Memory; J.Kidd
Remixing Memory in Digital Media; S.Wilson
Notes
Bibliography
Index
JOANNE GARDE-HANSEN is Senior Lecturer in Media, Communication and Culture at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. She has published research on archives, digital memory, women and ageing. She is co-investigator of the AHRC-funded Women, Ageing and Media research network.
ANDREW HOSKINS is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK, and director of the Warwick Centre for Memory Studies (www.memorystudies.net). He is the author of Televising War: From Vietnam to Iraq (2004) and co-author of Television and Terror (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). He is also founding editor-in-chief of the journal Memory Studies.
ANNA READING is Reader in Cultural Memory at London South Bank University, UK. She is the author of numerous books and articles on memory and digital memory, including The Social Inheritance of the Holocaust: Gender, Culture and Memory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). She is also a joint editor of the journal Media, Culture and Society.
Description
What is digital memory? How are digital technologies changing what we remember and how? Records of the past used to be expensive and bulky to keep, and difficult to access. But digital media technologies provide cheap data storage and easy data retrieval, with mobile networks enabling unprecedented global accessibility and participation in the creation of memories. Save As… Digital Memories brings together leading international scholars to address on-line memorials, blogging, mobile phones, social networking sites and the digital archive. They focus on topical subjects such the 'war on terror', cyberpunk, the Holocaust, digital remixing and the virtual museum. Trans-disciplinary and original, the book will appeal to those interested in how digital media technologies shape human memory. Providing an accessible and bold introduction to the subject of digital memory, each essay shows how digital technologies are changing human memory discourses, practices and forms, as well as the way we conceptualise memory itself.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
PART I: DIGITAL MEMORY DISCOURSES
The Mediatization of Memory; A.Hoskins
Saving Lives: Digital Biography and Life Writing; P.L.Arthur
Rewind, Remix, Rewrite: Digital and Virtual Memory in Cyberpunk Cinema; S.E.Matrix
PART II: DIGITAL MEMORY FORMS
Memobilia: The Mobile Phone and the Emergence of Wearable Memories; A.Reading
Remembering and Recovering Shanghai: Seven Jewish Families Reconnect in Cyberspace; A.Jakubowicz
Archiving the Gaze: Relation-Images, Adaptation and Digital Mnemotechnologies; B.Lessard
PART III: DIGITAL MEMORY PRACTICES
MyMemories?: Personal Digital Archive Fever and Facebook; J.Garde-Hansen
The Online Brazilian Museu da Pessoa; M.Clarke
Digital Storytelling and the Performance of Memory; J.Kidd
Remixing Memory in Digital Media; S.Wilson
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Authors
JOANNE GARDE-HANSEN is Senior Lecturer in Media, Communication and Culture at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. She has published research on archives, digital memory, women and ageing. She is co-investigator of the AHRC-funded Women, Ageing and Media research network.
ANDREW HOSKINS is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK, and director of the Warwick Centre for Memory Studies (www.memorystudies.net). He is the author of Televising War: From Vietnam to Iraq (2004) and co-author of Television and Terror (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). He is also founding editor-in-chief of the journal Memory Studies.
ANNA READING is Reader in Cultural Memory at London South Bank University, UK. She is the author of numerous books and articles on memory and digital memory, including The Social Inheritance of the Holocaust: Gender, Culture and Memory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). She is also a joint editor of the journal Media, Culture and Society.
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