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050	0	0	_aBF378.S65 _bS5813 2021
100			_aSisto, Davide, _d1978- _eauthor.
240	1	0	_aRicordati di me. _lEnglish
245	1	0	_aRemember me _b: memory and forgetting in the digital age _c/ Davide Sisto ; translated by Alice Kilgarriff.
264		1	_aCambridge, UK ; _aMedford, MA : _bPolity Press, _c[2021]
300			_aviii, 155 pages ; _c22 cm
500			_a"Originally published in Italian as Ricordati di me: La rivoluzione digitale tra memoria e oblio (c) 2020 Bollati Boringhieri editore, Torin"--Title page verso.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 138-147) and index.
505			_aSocial Networks and Looking Back — The past is just a story we tell our followers — Facebook and Looking Back: #10YearsChallenge, On This Day, Memories — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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.
520			_aAs 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.’ It 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. This 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.
650		0	_aMemory _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aOnline social networks _97708
650		0	_aSocial media _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aInternet _xSocial aspects _910777
700			_aKilgarriff, Alice, _etranslator. _925024
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