Posts Tagged ‘ memory objects ’

Abstract submitted to Research on Media and Education Journal

Inmemory: social memory, locative narratives Gianni Corino & Duncan Shingleton Locative media as a term shares with another term, the ‘Internet of Things’, the very up-to-date attempt to define the technical and cultural shift anticipated in the society as it moves to a ubiquitous form of computing in which every device is ‘on’, and in some way [ READ MORE ]

The Memory Economy: Revaluing everyday objects

Duncan Shingleton Edinburgh College of Art Appadurai proposes that the circulation of commodities in social life can be summarised in the follow way.  ‘Economic exchange creates value.  Value is embodied in commodities that are exchanged.  Focusing on things that are exchanged, rather than simply on the forms or functions of exchange, makes it possible to argue that [ READ MORE ]

A Memory Object’s Implications on Identity

  • September 22nd, 2009
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Geser (2002) theorises that the deliberate linkage of the physical world with the virtual world through RFID tags and sensors, will lead to a further “permeability” between the public and private contexts expanding traditional physical spaces, through the creation of “virtual communication” spaces. As we become part of the global network, we are no longer [ READ MORE ]

Objects as Memory Artifacts

  • September 22nd, 2009
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Baudrillard (1996) discuses the capacity for objects to invoke memories within us, that they complexity of this relationship between human on object connoting the ‘emotional value’ objects take on; ‘What gives houses of our childhood such depth and resonance in memory is clearly the complex structure of interiority, and the objects within it serve for [ READ MORE ]

Objects as Devices for Memory Storage

  • September 22nd, 2009
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Can smarty objects transfer the agency of memory storage away from the person and instead, in an automated process of continual information capture and storage, provide a new memory repository that supports, relieves and occasionally replaces natural memory? Draaisma (2000) provides us with a metaphor of memory as objects, referring to memories as a‘store of precious [ READ MORE ]