LAWS 3501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: New Media, Cultural Memory, Digital Footprint
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Week 10: digital memory & law in the information. Memory in the digital age: the "end of forgetting, basically we now have so much space that we no longer need to forget to make room for new data. Searchability or "googlization: massive storage capacity and ability to eaily and widely share has impacted the "decay time" of memory products, new possibilities of storage, circulation, and retrieval. Society and technology now influence what we remember, and what is remembered about us. Hand"s study on digital memory: expands what we are expected to remember, example: with digital calendars we are not expected to know everyone"s birthday. Logs mundane personal data: example: how much we sleep each night, how many steps we take each day. Logs consumption habits: example: a simple trip to a coffee shop now becomes a digital memory, vast data recorded on what we buy, what we shop for online.
