Transacting Memory in the Digital Age

Modernity, Fluidity and Immateriality

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7098899
AutoresY Ibrahim (0000-0002-2510-6683, Queen Mary University of London, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume11
Fascículo4
Páginas453-464
Data de publicação2018-04-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1674-0750 • E-ISSN: 2198-2600
EditoraSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s40647-018-0222-2
OpenAlexW2796189929
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas9

The incessant flow of content and data through digital platforms implicates humanity to immaterial modes of transacting identity and memory. Through the image of the "Napalm Girl" this paper traces the ways in which iconic images and memory can be remediated through social media platforms and algorithms. The re-contextualisation of history and memory through a technological gaze implicates us within new forms of vulnerabilities. By reviewing the politics of looking and watching online in digital platforms, the paper invites us to ponder over the flattening of memory and history through algorithms and a "digital morality" and "mortality" encoded through "user agreements" and "community standards". The repressing of this moral gaze weaves us into a social media economy where morality and ethics are refashioned through a viral economy where images are circulated, altered and reframed through digital technologies. The wider implications of this "virality" for humanity, memory making and historicity are explored

Aesthetics · Art · Digital media · Historicity (philosophy · Humanity · Identity (music · Media studies · Modernity · Morality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration