Introduction

Facebook time: Technological and institutional affordances for media memories

“…The Queen's Speech, The State of the Union, the Super Bowl), the division of the year into television seasons and the structuring of the day through specific programs at specific times, television has held an important role in creating what Paddy Scannell (2014) (2009) noted, not so much that events (memory, history, time) are straightforwardly mediated by media to audiences; instead media have entered into the production of events to such an unprecedented extent that those events should be considered mediatized. Consequently, social media in many respects, at least potentially, transform our possibilities for experiencing temporality and engaging with the past, present, and future (Garde-Hansen, Hoskins & Reading, 2009). …”

Psychological processes underlying Wikipedia representations of natural and manmade disasters

“…The widespread accessibility of people's thoughts and emotions in the digital environments provides researchers with new opportunities toward empirical and quantitative work at large scale. The Internet provides a large amount of data which researchers can collect unobtrusively and almost in real time, and the massive backup into digital archives allows scholars to conduct longitudinal studies on these data, without giving up the spontaneity of interactions [17,13]. In this context, Wikipedia, where users share their thoughts and perspectives to reach a common view on events, seems particularly appropriated for the study of traumatic events [16,26,40].…”

Introduction: Affective Fabrics of Digital Cultures

“…These archives do not simply contain information about particular events, but are 'memorial talismans that carry the affective weight of the past' (Cvetkovich, 2008: 120). The notion of archives of feelings resonates strongly with the ways emotional intensities operate in today's digital cultures, obsessed with preservation, saving, recording and storing (Garde-Hansen et al, 2009a). Digital archives of feelings are about recordings -such as personal narratives collected by Leder Mackley and Karpovich, or those of young transgenders who record and post videos of themselves on YouTube, as discussed by Tobias Raun.…”