Save As... Digital Memories [Hardcover]

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.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

'...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 Perfl³â