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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Martindale, Andrew
• Shneiderman, Sara
• Turin, Mark
• MARGOT YOUNG
• PHILIPPE TORTELL
• MARK TURIN
• Young, Margot
• Tortell, Philippe

Titel

TIME, ORAL TRADITION, AND TECHNOLOGY

Ist Teil von

• Memory, 2018, p.197-206

Ort / Verlag

Canada: Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• How do we remember the phone numbers of friends, the birthdays of family members or, most basically, the things we’re supposed to do tomorrow? Have billions of global citizens subcontracted remembering to digital devices in this technology-driven, postindustrial age? An examination of different methods of memory offers insights into how individual and collective memory works. Through a comparative lens, we see that memory is not simply passive recollection but rather a participatory form of identity construction that is highly cultural and varied. Memory emerges from the practices of individuals as well as from collectively agreedupon recollection. Memory making occurs in