MyMemories?: Personal Digital Archive Fever and Facebook

Garde-Hansen, Joanne

doi:10.1057/9780230239418_8

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“…Wikipedia, for instance, formed the basis of a paper on its role “As a global memory place” (Pentzold, 2009), and Michela Ferron and Paolo Massa (2014) investigated “Collective memories in Wikipedia.” Facebook has also been researched in this dimension. While Joanne Garde-Hansen (2009) looked at its archival function, Scott H. Church (2013) looked at “Digital gravescapes: Digital memorializing on Facebook” and Anne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt (2016) at a “Community of remembrance.”…”

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Collective memory and social media: Fostering a new historical consciousness in the digital age?

Birkner

Donk

2018

Memory Studies

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The impact of social media has grown significantly during the past decade in several fields of our society. This article advocates the research subfield of social media memory studies based on empirical data from a case study on the role of social media in a local conflict about re-naming a public square in an average German town. The square had been named after Paul von Hindenburg, who played a crucial role in the implementation of Adolf Hitler as German Reichskanzler and was therefore regarded as an inadequate public patron. Conservatives fought against the new name, also on Facebook. Our findings indicate that the platform played a decisive role as counter-public sphere against hegemonic mainstream media and politics in fostering a new historical consciousness. The case might be seen as a precedent of right-wing movements and their use of social media in the Brexit campaign or the US elections.

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Collective memory and social media: Fostering a new historical consciousness in the digital age?

Birkner

Donk

2018

Memory Studies

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“…The impossibility of forgetting afforded by digital technology raises fascinating questions about the implications of survivors' remembrance activities for making meaning of death over time. The power of social networking sites such as Facebook encourages certain types of memories, silences others, and restructures how users' lives are organized (Garde‐Hansen, ). For example, Facebook recently updated its “On this Day” feature, which automatically posts previous images and messages as “memories” on users' pages to help insure that only “good memories” are posted (Weinberger, ).…”

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Community psychology, digital technology, and loss: Remembrance activities of young adults who have experienced the death of a close friend

Stein

Majcher

Froemming

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Community & Applied Soc Psy

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We argue for community psychology to include digital communications technology in research on ways that the social environment shapes fundamental human experiences. We present a qualitative study that examined the narrative accounts of 20 young adults who experienced the death of a close friend to describe both traditional and digital forms of remembrance in coping with loss. Findings suggest that young adults' activities both online and offline were intended to acknowledge the loss, exchange social support, create and sustain memories of their deceased friend, and facilitate continued communication with the deceased. Participants described both costs and benefits to their real and virtual remembrance activities. Findings illustrate ways that the study of digital technology adds to our understanding of grief and bereavement and contributes to dominant cultural narratives about coping with death. Implications of findings for research in community psychology are discussed.

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“…In 2010 this led to the Memorial Mode 2 , which limited the features of dead accounts, and aimed to solve this problem of the dead having agency by defining them as dead. Garde-Hansen (2009) claims that social media is designed to follow someone else's database structure and logic. Aesthetically it also does not necessarily speak about individual people.…”

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Digital legacy: Designing with things

Pitsillides

2019

Death Studies

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Greenwich. Her research considers how technology and design shift our understanding of death and bereavement. As part of this research she has curated events for public engagement that question legacy and aesthetics through artistic research, co-design and situated design. In addition to this she is on the standing committee for the Death Online Research Symposium and has been the co-facilitator of three unconference events discussing issues of death and digitality.

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MyMemories?: Personal Digital Archive Fever and Facebook

Cited by 39 publications

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Collective memory and social media: Fostering a new historical consciousness in the digital age?

Collective memory and social media: Fostering a new historical consciousness in the digital age?

Community psychology, digital technology, and loss: Remembrance activities of young adults who have experienced the death of a close friend

Digital legacy: Designing with things

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