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The end of forgetting : growing up with social media

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Harvard University Press, ©2019Description: 185 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780674976696
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.231 23 EIC-E
LOC classification:
  • HM742 .E43 2019
Contents:
Introduction: Growing up at the end of forgetting 1. Documenting childhood before and after social media 2. Forgetting and being forgotten in the age of the data subject 3. Screens, screen memories, and childhood celebrity 4. When tagged subjects leave home 5. In pursuit of digital disappearance Conclusion: Forgetting, freedom, and data.
Summary: Thanks to Facebook and Instagram, our younger selves have been captured and preserved online. But what happens, Kate Eichhorn asks, when we can't leave our most embarrassing moments behind? Rather than a childhood cut short by a loss of innocence, the real crisis of the digital age may be the specter of a childhood that can never be forgotten.--
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302.231 AND-M Mediated intimacies : 302.231 BOL-D The digital plenitude : 302.231 CHE-W We are data : 302.231 EIC-E The end of forgetting : 302.231 FUC-S Social media : 302.231 GER-T Tweets and the streets : 302.231 HIN-I The internet trap :

This book includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Growing up at the end of forgetting 1. Documenting childhood before and after social media 2. Forgetting and being forgotten in the age of the data subject 3. Screens, screen memories, and childhood celebrity 4. When tagged subjects leave home 5. In pursuit of digital disappearance Conclusion: Forgetting, freedom, and data.

Thanks to Facebook and Instagram, our younger selves have been captured and preserved online. But what happens, Kate Eichhorn asks, when we can't leave our most embarrassing moments behind? Rather than a childhood cut short by a loss of innocence, the real crisis of the digital age may be the specter of a childhood that can never be forgotten.--

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