The remaking of memory in the age of the internet and social media / edited by Qi Wang and Andrew Hoskins.

"It has long been believed that individual human memory has been strengthened by the storage, representational, reproductive, and connective capacities of technologies and media. However, such views of how memory works are being challenged amidst today's digital maelstrom. In particular, the Internet, and social media platforms, have profoundly transformed the ways individuals receive, store, share, and lose information. Memory has become more externalized, networked, and transactive, yet at the same time, unwieldy, opaque, and inaccessible. In this volume, we have assembled scholars from cognitive psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, and media and communication studies, to synthesize emerging social and cognitive science research on the impact of the Internet and social media on remembering and forgetting. They probe whether human memory is being threatened or given new life through a shift from a healthy reliance to a dependency on digital media and technologies. Our expert contributors showcase their original theoretical and empirical research to expose the effects of human entanglements with the Internet and social media for memory representation, expression, and socialization in individuals and the implications for the family, community, and society. Gathering the leading international scholars of Memory Studies together, this volume offers a new interdisciplinary agenda of inquiry into the digital remaking of individual, collective, and cultural memory"--