{"title":"Introduction: Unpicking the Automation of Memory Making","authors":"Bente Jacobsen, David Beer","doi":"10.46692/9781529218176.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529218176.001","url":null,"abstract":"In the introduction, we suggest that social media platforms increasingly seek out ways to recirculate people’s past content and to render it meaningful for the individual user, selecting what should be visible and rendering it manageable. In short, the book conceptualises social media as automated systems that are actively sorting the past on behalf of the user, whilst highlighting the way in which processes of classification and ranking operate together to enable memories to be resurfaced on social media and throwback features. The introduction situates this argument within the wider fields of the social study of metrics, quantification, and digital identities. It also provides an overview of the throwback feature called Facebook Memories, outlining its underlying logic as well as its conceptualisation of memories.","PeriodicalId":123207,"journal":{"name":"Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117095245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Taxonomy of Memory Themes: Partitioning the Memorable","authors":"Bente Jacobsen, David Beer","doi":"10.46692/9781529218176.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529218176.002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter outlines how social media content is ordered within an existing classificatory grid. Focusing on a particular archetypal throwback feature, Facebook Memories, the chapter demonstrates how the ‘Taxonomy of Memory Themes’ was developed to classify people’s content as ‘memories’ on the platform. Once boxed-up, it is then decided where these bits of content are placed in terms of meaningfulness and positivity, and which of these ‘memories’ should become visible to individual users. The chapter, then, argues that social media are directly participating in the partition of the memorable, where processes of classification figure in the reconfiguration of past data into ‘memories’ whilst content not deemed memorable is side-lined. It further argues that the partitioning of the memorable has the potential to shape the conditions by which past content is rendered meaningful, and in turn shaping what can and should be remembered, celebrated, and shared.","PeriodicalId":123207,"journal":{"name":"Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory","volume":"53 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125559799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusion: Sorting the Past","authors":"Bente Jacobsen, David Beer","doi":"10.46692/9781529218176.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529218176.005","url":null,"abstract":"The conclusion brings together the various threads of the book, suggesting that there is a need to better understand the underlying classification and prioritisation processes and their consequences for memory in everyday life. The conclusion outlines how the book has sought to make a specific intervention into the automatic production of memory. It is suggested that the concept of memory, and what we understand memories to be, is unlikely to go untouched by these developments. The book finishes by suggesting that there is a need for a sustained engagement with broader issues related to the algorithmic interventions that are active in in memory-making, along with a careful exploration of what people make of these processes and how they respond to them. Indeed, the changes that social media are bringing to the politics of remembering is too important to leave unchecked.","PeriodicalId":123207,"journal":{"name":"Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121816861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Computational Surfacing of Memories: Promoting the Memorable","authors":"Bente Jacobsen, David Beer","doi":"10.46692/9781529218176.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529218176.003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on the processes of ranking that are a central part of the automatic production of memory. It shows how the taxonomisation of people’s memories provided not only the conditions by which to determine what counts as a memory and what does not, but also the conditions that enabled their ranking. This was the basis for how memories could be variously weighted and resurfaced within the throwback feature. As such, the processes of classification informed Facebook’s ranking algorithm, which afforded the targeting of certain memories to certain users at certain times. The chapter argues that the automatic production of memories is not only underpinned by the partitioning of the memorable, but also the promotion of the memorable. In this framework, rankings participate in ontologically promoting users’ past content into ‘memories’. As such, the promotion of content into memories actively generates novel kinds of encounters between the past and present, between individual users, and between users and the platform.","PeriodicalId":123207,"journal":{"name":"Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123955591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Reception of Targeted Memories in Everyday Life:","authors":"Bente Jacobsen, David Beer","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1k03sgq.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1k03sgq.7","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines the reception of targeted memories, focusing on the ways in which these processes of classification and ranking come to be felt in everyday life. As is suggested here, the categorisation and prioritisation of memory is not necessarily integrated into a smooth memory-making process. There are mismatches, strange choices, and missteps. Drawing on interview and focus group data, we identify four points of tension generated in relation to the automatic production of memory on social media: attention, reductivity, misconception, and invasiveness. As such, the multi-faceted reception of targeted memories in everyday life, the chapter argues, provides novel insights into the potential tensions that are generated as a result of the partitioning and promotion of the memorable on social media.","PeriodicalId":123207,"journal":{"name":"Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124680803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1k03sgq.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1k03sgq.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":123207,"journal":{"name":"Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127956724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusion:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1k03sgq.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1k03sgq.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":123207,"journal":{"name":"Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122684242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Computational Surfacing of Memories:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1k03sgq.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1k03sgq.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":123207,"journal":{"name":"Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128051890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1k03sgq.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1k03sgq.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":123207,"journal":{"name":"Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123417115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Back Matter","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1k03sgq.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1k03sgq.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":123207,"journal":{"name":"Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128942534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}