RESEARCH QUESTION. JUNE 2015
DIGITAL TRAUMA (AND OTHER DIGITAL MEMORY DISORDERS)
DIGITAL TRAUMA (AND OTHER DIGITAL MEMORY DISORDERS)
DIGITAL TRAUMA (AND OTHER DIGITAL MEMORY DISORDERS)
DIGITAL TRAUMA (AND OTHER DIGITAL MEMORY DISORDERS)
What are the political, social and individual consequences of having a Digital Memory that is capable of “remembering” all we want?.
DIGITAL TRAUMA (AND OTHER DIGITAL MEMORY DISORDERS)
I want to research how the ubiquity and pervasive nature of digital technology is reshaping our view of our past, and therefore our identity. I wonder what are the effects of the shift from an analog to a digital construction of cultural memory and what the implications of those effects are.
DIGITAL TRAUMA (AND OTHER DIGITAL MEMORY DISORDERS)
Digital trauma in post-conflict societies
If we can access our past at any given moment, to what extent can we get rid of it and look ahead? What consequences do the access to a digital memory (including access to the words, images and sounds of the horrors of the past) have for post-conflict societies? Can a digital memory become a powerful tool to ignite more profound ethnic hate, violence and war?
Digital Funes, or the memory that cant forget.
Cameras and data storage is getting so small and cheap that documenting everything with photos and film has become the default position. But what are the consequences of this high documentation of our daily life on our society?
Digital Amnesia and the black box
What are the consequences of this perfect external memory which allows us to have such a clear recollection of our autobiographical memory? How can this high documentation contribute to individual traumas?. How does this “perfect” external memory affect and shape our internal memories? In which measure can digital memory delete our real memories and create a kind of “digital amnesia”?.