On the Synthesis of Social Memories
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On the Synthesis of Social Memories. / Hui, Yuk.
Memory in Motion : Archives, Technology and the Social. ed. / Ina Blom; Trond Lundemo; Eivind Røssaak. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2016. p. 307-325.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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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 -