Save As... Digital Memories

by J. Garde-Hansen (Editor), A. Hoskins (Editor), A. Reading (Editor)

Overview

This groundbreaking and truly interdisciplinary collection of essays examines how digital media technologies require us to rethink established conceptualisations of human memory in terms of its discourses, forms and practices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230542525
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	05/28/2009
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	209
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

PAUL LONGLEY ARTHUR is a Research Fellow at the Australia Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia MARGARET ANNE CLARKE is Senior Lecturer in Portuguese at the University of Portsmouth, UK ANDREW JAKUBOWICZ is Professor of Sociology and a director of the Centre for Cosmopolitan Civil Societies at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia JENNY KIDD is a Research Associate in the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester, UK BRUNO LESSARD is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Film and in the Communication and Culture program at York University in Toronto, Canada SIDNEY EVE MATRIX is Queen's National Scholar and Assistant Professor of Film and Media at Queen's University, Canada SHAUN WILSON is an artist and curator, and also lectures in video and media theory in the School of Creative Media at RMIT University, Australia

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction PART I: DIGITAL MEMORY DISCOURSES The Mediatization of Memory; A.Hoskins Saving Lives: Digital Biography and Life Writing; P.L.Arthur Rewind, Remix, Rewrite: Digital and Virtual Memory in Cyberpunk Cinema; S.E.Matrix PART II: DIGITAL MEMORY FORMS Memobilia: The Mobile Phone and the Emergence of Wearable Memories; A.Reading Remembering and Recovering Shanghai: Seven Jewish Families Reconnect in Cyberspace; A.Jakubowicz Archiving the Gaze: Relation-Images, Adaptation and Digital Mnemotechnologies; B.Lessard PART III: DIGITAL MEMORY PRACTICES MyMemories?: Personal Digital Archive Fever and Facebook; J.Garde-Hansen The Online Brazilian Museu da Pessoa; M.Clarke Digital Storytelling and the Performance of Memory; J.Kidd Remixing Memory in Digital Media; S.Wilson Notes Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

'...an excellent overview of current discourse surrounding how we store, hold and deal with memories as a concept or product, when they are primarily created and/or experienced in digital form. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone entering or currently working within the areas of digital death or digital identity and heritage. The book creates an intriguing line of enquiry and draws the reader into a range of arguments, bipolarities, expanded examples, studies and sites, which are brought together in a coherent manner under the general theme of how new memory structures are augmenting human practices, cultures and even, to an extent, the idea of the human itself in a post-digital age. This book provides a contemporary analysis of the field of memory studies, which draws from the past and looks to the future.' - Stacey Pitsillides, Goldsmiths, University of London, International Journal of Performance, Arts and Digital Media

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