Mediated Memories in the Digital Age

Informationen zum Autor José van Dijck is Professor of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam. She is the author of several books, including Manufacturing Babies and Public Consent: Debating the New Reproductive Technologies (1995) and ImagEnation: Popular Images of Genetics (1998). Her latest book is titled The Transparent Body. A Cultural Analysis of Medical Imaging (2005). Klappentext This book studies how our personal memory is transformed as a result of technological and cultural transformations: digital photo cameras, camcorders, and multimedia computers inevitably change the way we remember and affect conventional forms of recollection. Zusammenfassung This book studies how our personal memory is transformed as a result of technological and cultural transformations: digital photo cameras! camcorders! and multimedia computers inevitably change the way we remember and affect conventional forms of recollection.

Product details

• Authors: Jose van Dijck, Jose van Dijck
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.06.2007
• EAN: 9780804756242
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5624-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries