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viii, 155 pages ; 22 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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| Note |
"Originally published in Italian as Ricordati di me: La rivoluzione digitale tra memoria e oblio (c) 2020 Bollati Boringhieri editore, Torin"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"How our growing reliance on the internet is changing the way we remember and forget"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
The Past is Just a Story We Tell Our Followers -- Facebook and Looking Back: #10YearChallenge, On This Day, Memories -- 1. 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 -- 2. 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 Body is My Message -- Stories of Cancer Bloggers on YouTube and Facebook -- Facebook: Encyclopedia of the Dead 2.0? -- Autobiographical Memory: Inventing the Past -- Disinterred Bodies: Social Networks and Data Flows as Archives -- 3. 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 by Memory -- 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 Internet as a Melancholy Container 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. |
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Memory -- Social aspects.
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Online social networks.
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Social media -- Social aspects.
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Internet -- Social aspects.
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Social media and society. (OCoLC)fst02023083
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Internet -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01766793
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Memory -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01015940
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Online social networks. (OCoLC)fst01741311
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| Added Author |
Kilgarriff, Alice, translator.
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| ISBN |
9781509545032 hardback |
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1509545034 hardback |
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1509545042 paperback |
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9781509545049 paperback |
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9781509545056 (epub) |
| Standard No. |
40030646704 |
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