[ecrea] Digital/Social Media and Memory: A Symposium

Does promiscuous media make for promiscuous memory? Even the 
sciences-of-the-mind increasingly search for cognition – the mental 
process of awareness, perception, remembering – outside of the head, 
extended and distributed across digital/social worlds. Memory is 
breaking out of the archive, the organization, the institution, 
increasingly diffused across brains, bodies, and personal and public 
lives. Has the digital leached away scarcity, trust, obligation, and 
much of memory’s former faithful companions? ‘Memory’ today seems 
different, strange, but which has also acquired (paradoxically) new 
force and new uncertainties.

Is connectivity irresistible? Is memory lost to the machine? Is the 
archive broken?

Six leading experts in the fields of media archaeology, media studies 
and memory studies assess the emergent forces of remembering and 
forgetting in the new media ecology:

Wolfgang Ernst, Humboldt University, Berlin.

Jussi Parikka, Winchester School of Art

Wulf Kansteiner, Binghamton SUNY

José van Dijck, University of Amsterdam

Anna Reading, King's College London

William Merrin, Swansea University



Glasgow Memory Group:

http://bit.ly/YEaXTB



Speaker abstracts here:

http://bit.ly/149ojLa



University of Glasgow, Wednesday 17th April 2013, 9am-5.50pm, Main 
Building 226: East Quad Lecture Theatre.



Attendance is free but places are limited so booking is essential.



Registration here:

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/5682600812http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/5682600812



This event is sponsored by the SAGE Journal of Memory Studies
http://mss.sagepub.com


Twitter @memorystudies


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Professor Andrew Hoskins
Interdisciplinary Research Professor In Global Security

http://www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/socialsciences/ourstaff/andrewhoskins/

Founding Editor-in-Chief, Memory Studies (http://mss.sagepub.com)
Founding Co-Editor, Media, War & Conflict (http://mwc.sagepub.com)

Director, Adam Smith Research Foundation
College of Social Sciences
University of Glasgow
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Glasgow
G12 8LS

T: +44 (0)141 330 7656
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