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How have new technologies and media affected our capacity for memory? Until recently, optimism about the potential for strengthening individuals' memory through the storage, representational, reproductive, and connective capacities of digital media has prevailed. But these past views of how memory works are being challenged amidst today's digital maelstrom. In particular, the Internet, and social media platforms, have profoundly transformed the ways individuals receive, store, share, and lose information. Memory has become more externalized, dialogical, and transactive, yet, at the same time, unwieldy, opaque, and inaccessible.In The Remaking of Memory in the Age of the Internet and Social Media published by Oxford University Press in 2024, Qi Wang (professor of human development, psychology, and cognitive science at Cornell University) and Andrew Hoskins (professor of AI, memory and war, University of Edinburgh) have assembled scholars from cognitive psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, and media and communication studies to synthesize emerging social and cognitive science research on the impact of the Internet and social media on remembering and forgetting. They probe whether human memory is being threatened by a shift from a healthy reliance to a dependency on digital media and technologies.
Please join us for this Chats in the Stacks book talk, for a discussion of the recent research described in this important new book and the implications it suggests for us as individuals and the families, communities, and societies in which we live.
This is a hybrid event. For those who cannot join us in person, please register for virtual attendance at
https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tWe120NITPitSYns8U7Bcg
Location: Mann Library, Room: 160
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