Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age, Sisto, Kilgarriff^+

Remember MeMemory and Forgetting in the Digital Age\nAuthor(s): Davide Sisto, Alice Kilgarriff\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509545032, 978-1509545032\nSynopsis\nAs the end of December draws near, Facebook routinely sends users a short video entitled Your Year on Facebook. It lasts about a minute and brings together the images and posts that received the highest number of comments and likes over the last year. The video is rounded off with a message from Facebook that reads: Sometimes, looking back helps us remember what matters most. Thanks for being here. It is this looking back, increasingly the focus of social networks, that is the inspiration behind Davide Sistos brilliant reflection on how our relationship with remembering and forgetting is changing in the digital era. The past does not really exist: it is only a story we tell ourselves. But what happens when we tell this story not only to ourselves b.