1  Cover

      2  Dedication

      3  Title Page

      4  Copyright Page

      5  Acknowledgements

      6  Introduction. Social Networks and Looking Back The Past is Just a Story We Tell Our Followers Facebook and Looking Back: #10YearChallenge, On This Day, Memories Notes

      7  1 From Social Networks to Digital Archives The Twenty Days of Turin: Facebook in 1977 Naked in front of the Computer: Social Networks in the 1990s The World Doubled: Reincarnation or the Cocaine of the Future? Blogs, Forums, Mailing Lists: A New Life in 56K The Era of Shared Passions: An Epidemic of Digital Memories Digital Memory as Crazed Mayonnaise: The Past is Emancipated, Identities Multiply Notes

      8  2 Collective Cultural Autobiographies and Encyclopedias of the Dead 2.0 Experiments in Collective Cultural Autobiography Copy and Paste: Writing About Oneself is Like Summing Up the History of the Universe Cancer Bloggers: My Body is My Message Stories of Cancer Bloggers on YouTube and Facebook Facebook: Encyclopedia of the Dead 2.0? Autobiographical Memory: Inventing the Past Disinterred Bodies: Social Networks and Data Flows as Archives Notes

      9  3 Total Recall, Digital Immortality, Retromania Becoming the Database of Ourselves: Lifelogging and Video-Camera Memory The Memobile: From Total Recall to Digital Immortality The Memory Remains: The Life of Memories Post-Mortem Mind-Uploading as a Declaration of Independence by Memory Insomnia Inside a Garbage Heap: Funes, or of a Life that Never Forgets Creating Space in Memory: Forgetting and Sleep as Forms of Resistance The Internet as a Melancholy Container of Regret: Hollie Gazzard, The Last Message Received, Wartherapy Retromania and Sad Passions: The End of Nostalgia and the Loss of the Future San Junipero Exists and Lives in Facebook Notes

      10  Conclusion. Digital Inheritance and a Return to Oblivion Digital Inheritance: What to Do With Our Own Memories? The Value of Oblivion and the Joy of Being Forgotten Notes

      11  Bibliography

      12  Index

      13  End User License Agreement

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