This groundbreaking and truly interdisciplinary collection of essays examines how digital media technologies require us to rethink established conceptualisation

Digital media, networks and archives reimagine and revitalize individual, social and cultural memory but they also ensnare it, bringing it under new forms of co

Our memory gives the human species a unique evolutionary advantage. Our stories, ideas, and innovations--in a word, our "culture"--can be recorded and passed on

In the popular imagination, archives are remote, largely obsolete institutions: either antiquated, inevitably dusty libraries or sinister repositories of person

This book studies how our personal memory is transformed as a result of technological and cultural transformations: digital photo cameras, camcorders, and multi