· 2017
Digital Memory Studies
- 150citations
- 2017year
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Digital Memory Studies establishes a new interdisciplinary field to analyze how digital technologies paradoxically control and preserve memory, examining concepts, theories, and histories through lenses of connectivity, archaeology, economy, and archive.
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Key points
- Digital technologies create paradoxical conditions for memory, enabling both preservation and control.
- Digital Memory Studies offers an interdisciplinary approach to understanding these conditions.
- The field examines concepts, theories, and histories of media and memory studies.
- Analysis is framed through connectivity, archaeology, economy, and archive.
- Topics include television, videogames, social media, and memory institutions.
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Abstract
Digital media, networks and archives reimagine and revitalize individual, social and cultural memory but they also ensnare it, bringing it under new forms of control. Understanding these paradoxical conditions of remembering and forgetting through today’s technologies needs bold interdisciplinary interventions. Digital Memory Studies seizes this challenge and pioneers an agenda that interrogates concepts, theories and histories of media and memory studies, to map a holistic vision for the study of the digital remaking of memory. Through the lenses of connectivity, archaeology, economy, and archive, contributors illuminate the uses and abuses of the digital past via an array of media and topics, including television, videogames and social media, and memory institutions, network politics and the digital afterlife.
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