Record and remember

Memory and meaning-making practices through mobile media

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13012011
AutoresDidem Özkul (0000-0002-7889-8020, autor de correspondencia), Laud Humphreys (0000-0002-5005-0394, Cornell University)
Año2015
Volumen3
Número3
Páginas351-365
Fecha de publicación2015-01-18
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMobile Media & Communication (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2050-1579 • E-ISSN: 2050-1587
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/2050157914565846
OpenAlexW2158006579
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas39
Referencias citadas22

Mobile media have the potential to affect how one remembers and exercises the past as they offer new and creative ways to record and document the current. These new ways of preserving the past could be in the form of sharing locational information (e.g., geotagging, camera phone photos, check-ins), which would remind our future selves where we come from and how we used to be. We sometimes consciously create our everyday life narratives intending to hang onto a moment, or simply because the technology automatically saves our experiences, we unconsciously preserve our pasts. Mobile media can contribute to the existing ways of narrating places and the self because locational information can communicate multiple and different aspects of places. Situating our analysis within the broader literature on memory and media, we draw on three different studies conducted in the UK and the US in order to analyze different uses of mobile media in remembering associations with places, past experiences, and creating a nostalgic sense of place. More specifically we draw on notions of memory work and mediated memories to explore the mutual shaping of media, place, and memory

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Meaning-making · Media studies · Memory work · Mobile media · Mobile phone · Multimedia · Narrative · New media · Sociology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks · Psychology · Social Media and Politics