Mediated Memories in the Digital Age (Cultural Memory in the Present (Paperback)) (Paperback)
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Short Description for Mediated Memories in the Digital Age This book studies how our personal memory is transformed as a result of technological and cultural transformations: digital photo cameras, camcorders, and multimedia computers inevitably change the way we remember and affect conventional forms of recollection.
Full description- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- Published: 15 August 2007
- Format: Paperback 272 pages
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- Categories: Literary Studies: General | Cultural Studies | Media Studies | Social Forecasting, Future Studies | Impact Of Science & Technology On Society | Ethical & Social Aspects Of Computing
- ISBN 13: 9780804756242 ISBN 10: 0804756244
- Sales rank: 225,493
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Full description for Mediated Memories in the Digital Age
Many people deploy photo media tools to document everyday events and rituals. For generations we have stored memories in albums, diaries, and shoeboxes to retrieve at a later moment in life. Autobiographical memory, its tools, and its objects are pressing concerns in most people's everyday lives, and recent digital transformation cause many to reflect on the value and meaning of their own "mediated memories." Digital photo cameras, camcorders, and multimedia computers are rapidly replacing analogue equipment, inevitably changing our everyday routines and conventional forms of recollection. How will digital photographs, lifelogs, photoblogs, webcams, or playlists change our personal remembrance of things past? And how will they affect our cultural memory? The main focus of this study is the ways in which (old and new) media technologies shape acts of memory and individual remembrances. This book spotlights familiar objects but addresses the larger issues of how technology penetrates our intimate routines and emotive processes, how it affects the relationship between private and public, memory and experience, self and others.
