Digitalized Memory, Forgetting And The Loss Of Social Memory

Koçak, Dilek Özhan; Koçak, Orhan Kemal

Digitalized Memory, Forgetting And The Loss Of Social Memory

dc.authorid	122088	en_US
dc.authorid	141674	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Koçak, Dilek Özhan
dc.contributor.author	Koçak, Orhan Kemal
dc.date.accessioned	2020-02-13T11:52:05Z
dc.date.available	2020-02-13T11:52:05Z
dc.date.issued	2013
dc.department	İstanbul Beykent Üniversitesi	en_US
dc.description.abstract	A group can be sure about its identity by remembering its history and refreshing the “figures of memory” in its mind. These social identities become the objects of non-daily ritual communication. Rituals and ceremonies with their regular repetitions help in transmitting and transfering the information which protect the identities; thus they undertake in reproducing the cultural identities. Rituals guarantee the temporal and spatial togetherness of a group. Although digital media technologies provide in storing the experiences and the events cheaply and easily, “datas”, which are detached and disconnected from each other and lack of temporality and spatility (lack of monuments and memoriable), they remain insufficient in providing or maintaining social memory and identity. In addition, taking into account that in order to remember something one must inevitably forget, it won’t be wrong to assert that social memory corresponds to elimination and generalization. However, who decides the elimination of all these datas in digital world and how this elimination is done or will be done? Time and memory disappear with digital culture as a kind of irrational overage. Forgetfulness is managed by an unshakable idea of progress. As Adorno and Horkheimer mentioned “all reification is a forgetting”. Since the past is forgotten, present can prevail without objection. The only way to overcome with it is to remember.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Yakın Doğu Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, Cilt vı, Sayı,1, 2013, s. 40-60	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1986 - 1303
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Yakın Doğu Üniversitesi	en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory	Makale - Ulusal Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı	en_US
dc.subject	Social Memory	en_US
dc.subject	Social Identity	en_US
dc.subject	Digital Media	en_US
dc.subject	Temporality,	en_US
dc.subject	Spatility	en_US
dc.subject	Forgetting	en_US
dc.title	Digitalized Memory, Forgetting And The Loss Of Social Memory	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US