Micro-memories: Digital modes of communication across three generations

Grønning, Anette

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“…10 These in turn amplify unsettlement about possible future uses of this technology, and about the implications for individual and social mnemonic practices. To Grønning, it is imperative that studies of mediated memory are grounded critically and remain mindful of ‘socio-technical developments and the affordances of the digital modes of communication’ (2021:744). In our study, as is demonstrated in this section and in the concepts of ‘remediated memory’ and ‘algorithmic nostalgia’, we have responded to this prompt.…”

Section: Remembering the Dead In An Algorithmic Presentmentioning

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Deep Nostalgia: Remediated memory, algorithmic nostalgia and technological ambivalence

Kidd

McAvoy

2023

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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Digital recreations of the past, and of the deceased, are part of the Internet’s present. They circulate within social networks where logics of connection and connectivity underpin increasingly performative memory work. In this article we explore these developments through a case study of the MyHeritage deep learning feature, Deep Nostalgia. Our analysis is informed by a close critical study of Deep Nostalgia creations, and discourses circulating around them, shared on Twitter during the two-week period following its launch, February 2021 (n.6935). We examine how memory is evoked, framed, re-worked and distorted through algorithmic processes, and within social networks in particular, and explore what this tells us about peoples' need to connect with their pasts. First, we analyse how the shift from photo to video ‘revives’ the dead via a process that we have termed ‘remediated memory’. Second, we explore the affective dimensions and resonances of Deep Nostalgia creations. In doing so, we introduce the concept of ‘algorithmic nostalgia’ to describe the ways nostalgia is generated, organised and exploited through Deep Nostalgia’s automated and recursive algorithmic mechanisms. Third, we interrogate the ways social media logics shape the use and influence of these outputs. Our study’s scholarly contribution is at the intersection of memory, automation, and algorithms. We highlight the importance of studying the ambivalence of emerging media at their nexus with memory studies and, critically, of attending to the ways corporate interests increasingly shape – and assimilate – these activities.

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Section: Remembering the Dead In An Algorithmic Presentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deep Nostalgia: Remediated memory, algorithmic nostalgia and technological ambivalence

Kidd

McAvoy

2023

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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Remembrance practices in the 21st century

Berenson,

Ezra

2023

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Individuals and groups construct identity through storytelling. Sometimes individuals use these to remember past events and group narratives to foster a sense of belonging. The individual and group interact and build relationships through shared memory. The present paper examines the mediatic representations of individual perceptions of the Holocaust in @eva.stories that evoke, revive, and revitalize Holocaust collective memory. Based on Multimodal Discourse Analysis, we analyzed and organized the findings according to the following communication categories: content, mode, and medium. Using Instagram to enliven Eva’s storytelling creates a unique duality between the audience and the implicit story content‎. Consequently, multimodal storytelling via Instagram bridges the historical past to the present generation. We conclude that the collective memory’s retelling and preservation constantly change due to cultural and political contexts. Consequently, as today’s online environments are a crucial sphere of discourse, online spaces play a role in creating, maintaining, and spreading collective memories.

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Digital transformation and digital public administration

Tsvetkov

2024

E-Management

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Society development in modern world is characterized by a trend called digital transformation. This multiple phenomenon concerns different industries and directions from medicine to transportation. Society digital transformation is not just a new trend. It creates synergistic development in science and technology and is synonymous with the “digitalization” term. Digitalization has emerged as a trend of digital economy and generalization of a number of digital technologies and has been significantly enriched with the advent of the Internet of Things and satellite technologies. It is in interaction with a number of digital technologies. Digital transformation accompanies development of a number of industries such as management, agriculture, transportation, real estate, construction, cadaster, and natural resource extraction. One of the characteristics of digital transformation in governance is that it has led to emergence of new phenomena such as digital governance and digital law. Despite the widespread use of digitalization, specificity and evolution of the “digital” term is often overlooked. Content-wise, it emerged during the Third Information Revolution, formally during the Fourth. “New” economy emergence served as the basis for digital economy emergence. Despite the modern analysis, it has not yet been precisely defined. The existing interpretations to the definition of this concept have been analyzed. Digital transformation development in Russia and other countries has been compared. A critical analysis of some approaches to digital transformation has been given. Digital law and digital governance go beyond existing regulations and use special legislation and regulations. These new directions require further development.

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Micro-memories: Digital modes of communication across three generations

Cited by 3 publications

References 28 publications

Deep Nostalgia: Remediated memory, algorithmic nostalgia and technological ambivalence

Deep Nostalgia: Remediated memory, algorithmic nostalgia and technological ambivalence

Remembrance practices in the 21st century

Digital transformation and digital public administration

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