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Remembering Through Facebook: Mediated Memory and Intimate Digital Traces

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posted on 2023-05-24, 06:10 authored by Robards, B, Lincoln, S, Benjamin PinkardBenjamin Pinkard, Harris, J
Brady sat across from Sarah (28), interviewing her in her kitchen in a regional town in Tasmania, an island state off the south coast of Australia. The interview was about Facebook use over time among people in their 20s, but before the interview even began in earnest, Brady and Sarah were talking about Sarah’s home and her family. Sarah’s dog was jumping up on Brady at the time, and they started talking about when Sarah first got the dog a year earlier. Sarah instinctively and unprompted reached for her phone, and scrolled back through Facebook, to show Brady photos of the dog as a puppy. Although we didn’t realise it at the time, Sarah’s instinctive reaching for Facebook as a memory prompt, and the performative act of showing, would come to serve as a good illustration for a key finding in our research: that Facebook has come to serve as not just an archive of digital traces of life, but also as a prompt for deeper and shared memory-work.

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Publication title

Digital Intimate Publics and Social Media

Editors

AS Dobson, B Robards, N Carah

Pagination

75-92

ISBN

978-3-319-97606-8

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Place of publication

Switzerland

Extent

17

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Copyright 2018 The Authors

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  • Restricted

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Expanding knowledge in human society

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