| Mediated Memories in the Digital Age Contributor(s): Van Dijck, Jose (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804756244 ISBN-13: 9780804756242 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $23.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2007 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Social Aspects - Computers | Social Aspects |
| Dewey: 153.13 |
| LCCN: 2007008641 |
| Series: Cultural Memory in the Present |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9" (0.85 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |