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Davide Sisto. Remember Me
Table of Contents
Guide
Pages
Dedication
Remember Me. Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Introduction Social Networks and Looking Back. The Past is Just a Story We Tell Our Followers
Facebook and Looking Back: #10YearChallenge, On This Day, Memories
Notes
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
Notes
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
Notes
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
Notes
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
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Facebook’s (ongoing) metamorphosis can be seen in the fact that looking back has been its most important feature for some time now. The perennial exhumation of what has happened within it seems to be a literal translation of the pathos and resonance Vilèm Flusser attributes to the internet in general, describing it as a ‘way of loving our neighbour’.14
At some point towards the end of December, Facebook provides each of its two billion users with a video entitled ‘Year in Review’, alternating, in little more than a minute and against a strategically coloured background, the images and posts shared by the user over the past twelve months that received the highest number of likes and comments. Just like the brief videos created skilfully by online newspapers, in which the rapid succession of Juventus’ most important goals illustrates their victory march towards their umpteenth championship title. Or those shown on television, in which a collage of a talk show’s highlights is used to celebrate its season finale. At the end of the Facebook video, we read: ‘Sometimes, looking back helps us remember what matters most. Thanks for being here.’
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