Slides bij de collegereeks Media Life, University of Amsterdam, 2015

1. Media Life
Inleiding Mediacultuur I
08 Living Archive
#medialife #IMCI

6. “Appropriating the new forms of
communication, people have built their
own system of mass self-communication”
Manuel Castells

14. “We do not live in a
society that uses digital
archiving, we live in an
information society that is
a digital archive.”

16. living
archives

19. Google CEO Eric Schmidt,
September 7, 2010

23. what is the
problem with
storing and
sharing all our
memories?

24. messy retrieval systems
reality disconnect
forgetting is functional
too much information (TMI)
loss of serendipity
identity security
inauthentic self

26. “Entering cyberspace can be a sign of an authentic
search for personal encounters with others, provided
that attention is paid to avoiding dangers such as
enclosing oneself in a sort of parallel existence, or
excessive exposure to the virtual world. In the search
for sharing, for ‘friends’, there is the challenge to be
authentic and faithful, and not give in to the illusion of
constructing an artificial public profile for oneself.”