ISBN:
9781529218176
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (116 pages)
Serie:
Bristol Shorts Research
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Jacobsen, Ben Social media and the automatic production of memory
DDC:
302.231
Schlagwort(e):
Social media and society
;
Social media--Psychological aspects
;
Autobiographical memory
;
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
Social media platforms hold vast amounts of data about our lives. Content from the past is increasingly being presented in the form of 'memories'. Critically exploring this new form of memory making, this unique book asks how social media are beginning to change the way we remember.
Kurzfassung:
Front Cover -- Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Unpicking the Automation of Memory Making -- The mediation of memory -- Metrics and targeting: the context -- The self in data -- Engineering memories through throwback features: the case of Facebook Memories -- A note on the direction of this book -- 2 A Taxonomy of Memory Themes: Partitioning the Memorable -- The power of classification in memory making -- Pigeon-holing the past -- Ideals of engagement and the sorting of past content -- Partitioning and surfacing -- Distributing and partitioning the sensible -- Conclusion: the partitioning of the memorable -- 3 The Computational Surfacing of Memories: Promoting the Memorable -- Feedback loops and the surfacing of memories -- The personalization and timing of the past -- Ontological promotion and the memory as Edge -- Conclusion -- 4 The Reception of Targeted Memories in Everyday Life: Classificatory Struggles and the Tensions of Remembering -- Getting at the tensions of remembering -- "It directs my memories": technicity of attention -- "The algorithm doesn't really work with me": reductive algorithms -- "When the algorithm goes wrong": algorithmic misconceptions -- "It leaves me a bit creeped out": invasive algorithms -- Conclusion -- 5 Conclusion: Sorting the Past -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.
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URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781529218176/type/BOOK
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529218152.001.0001
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