TY - CHAP

T1 - On the Synthesis of Social Memories

AU - Hui, Yuk

N1 - Ersch. 2016, Copyright 2017

PY - 2016/11

Y1 - 2016/11

N2 - This essay is about the synthesis of social memories rather than social memoryper seand discusses such a synthesis in the light of digital technologies. Synthesis here is understood in the Kantian sense of ‘putting together different representations and grasping what is manifold in one [act of knowledge]’.² Synthesis thus demands an active unification of parts in contrast to an unconscious or mechanical repetition. To remember something is always a reconstruction in which the fragmented past and the projected future are brought into the present. In the early twentieth century, Maurice Halbwachs introduced the concept of social memory in

AB - This essay is about the synthesis of social memories rather than social memoryper seand discusses such a synthesis in the light of digital technologies. Synthesis here is understood in the Kantian sense of ‘putting together different representations and grasping what is manifold in one [act of knowledge]’.² Synthesis thus demands an active unification of parts in contrast to an unconscious or mechanical repetition. To remember something is always a reconstruction in which the fragmented past and the projected future are brought into the present. In the early twentieth century, Maurice Halbwachs introduced the concept of social memory in

KW - Media and communication studies

UR - http://en.aup.nl/download/9789048532063.pdf

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/361a40a7-b117-30d8-9b42-97596e76f2d1/

U2 - 10.2307/j.ctt1jd94f0.16

DO - 10.2307/j.ctt1jd94f0.16

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 978-94-6298-214-7

SP - 307

EP - 325

BT - Memory in Motion

A2 - Blom, Ina

A2 - Lundemo, Trond

A2 - Røssaak, Eivind

PB - Amsterdam University Press

CY - Amsterdam

ER -