This book presents cutting-edge research on memory in the age of the Internet and social media. The empirical studies reported in the ten chapters address the influence of the digital age on remembering in three broad areas: offloading memory and the associated costs, benefits, and boundary conditions; autobiographical memory online; and false memory at a time of fake news and misinformation.
These studies employ innovative and rigorous methodological approaches that are ecologically valid in the online context. Their findings reveal complex and dynamic characteristics of human memory in a digitally mediated world that shapes our learning, our sense of self, and our beliefs and decision making. Collectively, the chapters in this volume provide rich theoretical insights into the workings and functions of memory. This book ushers in a new era of research on memory in the age of digitization.
Memory Online will be a beneficial read for students and scholars of Psychology, Cognitive Science, Communication, and Media Studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Memory.
Edited by:
Qi Wang (Cornell University USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 280mm,
Width: 210mm,
Weight: 580g
ISBN: 9781032412900
ISBN 10: 1032412909
Pages: 140
Publication Date: 30 December 2022
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction: Memory Online 1. Information without knowledge: the effects of Internet search on learning 2. Pretesting can be beneficial even when using the internet to answer questions 3. The gist of it: offloading memory does not reduce the benefit of list categorisation 4. On our susceptibility to external memory store manipulation: examining the influence of perceived reliability and expected access to an external store 5. Replicating autobiographical memory research using social media: a case study 6. Remembering online and offline: the effects of retrieval contexts, cues, and intervals on autobiographical memory 7. Why do people share memories online? An examination of the motives and characteristics of social media users 8. Persistence of false memories and emergence of collective false memory: collaborative recall of DRM word lists 9. Deepfake false memories 10. He did it! Or did I just see him on Twitter? Social media influence on eyewitness identification
Qi Wang is Professor of Human Development, Psychology, and Cognitive Science at Cornell University, USA. Her research focuses on the impact of cultural forces – including the Internet and social media – on memory and psychosocial functioning. She is the author of The Autobiographical Self in Time and Culture (2013).
