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Should We Trust Our Digital Memories?
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| With Marta Severo (Prof. Communication, University of Paris Nanterre), Jacopo Domenicucci (Universite Paris), Jean-Franois Blanchette (Prof. Informatics, Univ. of California), Chris Elsden (Interaction Design Researcher, Northumbria), Joanne Hansen (Dir. Cultural & Media Policy Studies, University of Warwick), Anna Reading (Prof. Culture & Creative, King's College London). |
| Hotel de Lauzun, 17 Quai d'Anjou, Paris |
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Feb 21 (Thu) , 2019 @ 10:30 AM
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This conference's aim is to bring attention to some issues connected with the creation & retrieval of autobiographical memories through social media & online personal archives, as well as through others services, like e-mail inboxes & instant messaging, which do not have specific memory features, but that can be used as well to browse & access information about one's past.
We focus on how trust in digital memories is built, by tackling the question from two points of view:
1. A user's perception of the use, destination, lifespan, & reliability of their personal digital memories created & collected by online platforms, apps & digital devices.
2. The trust we grant to our digital memories even when they are divergent from our biological memories.
The conference articulates the main question of trust in digital memories around the following topics:
Time: Can we define a specific social media temporality? And how can we address issues connected with the duration of online personal memories over time?
Identity: Which are the effects of experiencing one's past through digital personal memories on personal identity & self-knowledge?
Media & memory: Do social media, online databases & algorithmic systems create radically new ways of collecting & retrieving memories?
Design: How media design can help users to manage their digital memories, making sense of them & trust them?
Theories on autobiographical memory: In which way do new media modify the concept of memory itself & how do they shape theory on autobiographical memory? How do we reconcile constructionist theories of biologicalautobiographical memory with the experience of immutable digitized memories?
Life-writing: How does autobiography evolves in digital environments? We explore this question through examples from life logging, weblogs, the quantified self & different forms of autobiographical online practices.
Data: when personal memories are stored as digital data & shared on online platforms, do individuals really own & control them? How does the dispersion of personal data through platforms & devices affects the way individuals think about their past online selves?
We adopt a long-term perspective which takes into account 1) the experience of posting contents on social media for more than a decade, & what that means in terms of accumulation of digital memories; 2) the evolution & obsolescence of platforms; 3) users' migration from one platform to another with the consequent dispersion and/or reuse of their memories in different contexts online.
Contributions draw on theoretical & empirical accounts with an interdisciplinary approach, gathering researchers from different fields, such as philosophy, cognitive studies, media studies, human computer interaction & design studies.
Scientific Committee:
Gloria Origgi - Institut Jean Nicod, Paris
Roberto Casati - Institut Jean Nicod, Paris
Jos Van Dijck - Utrecht University
Jerme Dokic - EHESS, Paris
Judith Simon - Hamburg University
Serena Ciranna - Institut Jean Nicod, Paris
Speakers:
1. Blanchette Jean-Franois; Associate Professor of Informatics, Department of Information Studies - University of California, Los Angeles
2. Domenicucci, Jacopo - Ph.D Student in Philosophy, Universit Paris 1, Sorbonne
3. Elsden, Chris; Interaction Design Researcher - Northumbria University
4. Gilliland, Anne; Professor, Information Studies & Director, Center for Information as Evidence - University of California, Los Angeles
5. Gunthorun, Gudmundsdottir; Professor in Comparative Literature - University of Iceland
6. Garde Hansen, Joanne; Reader in Culture, Media & Communication,
Director Cultural & Media Policy Studies - University of Warwick
7. Hoskins, Andrew; Interdisciplinary Research Professor in College of Social Sciences Global Security - University of Glasgow
8. Ibrahim, Yasmin; Reader in International Business & Communications - Queen Mary, University of London
9. Kaun, Anne; Associate Professor Senior Lecturer School of Culture & Education Centre for Baltic & East European Studies (CBEES) - University of Stockholm
10. Reading, Anna; Professor of Culture & Creative Industries - King's College London
11. Petrelli, Daniela; Professor of Interaction Design - Sheffield Hallam University
12. Severo, Marta; Associate Professor in Communication at the University of Paris Nanterre (Dicen laboratory) - Universit Paris Nanterre
13. Van Den Hoven, Elise; Professor in the School of Software, Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology (FEIT) - University of Sidney
14. Stefana Broadbent: Lecturer in Digital Anthropology - University College London
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