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Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past
Abstract
Social media platforms hold vast amounts of biographical data about our lives. They repackage our past content as ‘memories’ and deliver them back to us. But how does that change the way we remember? Drawing on original qualitative research as well as industry documents and reports, this book critically explores the process behind this new form of memory making. In asking how social media are beginning to change the way we remember, it will be essential reading for scholars and students who are interested in understanding the algorithmically defined spaces of our lives.
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“A very visible form of this agency is algorithmic curation, where platforms actively select, sort and present past content as 'memories' to users, often without being prompted [13,15].”
From Collective memory and social media. (2025) · cites this paper as [15]
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Adriaansen, R.-J., & Smit, R. (2025) · Current Opinion in Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102077 · Cited by 15
Metadata
- Authors
- Jacobsen, B., & Beer, D.
- ORCID
- Beer, David
- Venue
- Policy Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press
- Published
- 2021-04-01
- OpenAlex
- W4206335074
- Cited by
- 11
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 2.27
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Policy Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Communication › Digital Media and Philosophy
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
- Keywords
- social media, memory, autobiographical memory, algorithmic curation, memory formation, biographical information, platform algorithms
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