[Air-L] Digital/Social Media and Memory: A Symposium

Andrew Hoskins Andrew.Hoskins at glasgow.ac.uk
Tue Apr 16 04:55:25 PDT 2013


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University of Glasgow, Wednesday 17th April 2013, 9am-5.50pm BST


Does promiscuous media make for promiscuous memory? Even the sciences-of-the-mind increasingly search for cognition – the mental process of awareness, perception, remembering – outside of the head, extended and distributed across digital/social worlds. Memory is breaking out of the archive, the organization, the institution, increasingly diffused across brains, bodies, and personal and public lives. Has the digital leached away scarcity, trust, obligation, and much of memory’s former faithful companions? ‘Memory’ today seems different, strange, but which has also acquired (paradoxically) new force and new uncertainties.
Is connectivity irresistible? Is memory lost to the machine? Is the archive broken?
Six leading experts in the fields of media archaeology, media studies and memory studies assess the emergent forces of remembering and forgetting in the new media ecology:
Wolfgang Ernst, Humboldt University, Berlin.
Jussi Parikka, Winchester School of Art
Wulf Kansteiner, SUNY, Binghamton
José van Dijck, University of Amsterdam
Anna Reading, King's College London
William Merrin, Swansea University

Glasgow Memory Group:
http://bit.ly/YEaXTB

Speaker abstracts here:
http://bit.ly/149ojLa

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Professor Andrew Hoskins
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