Public Appropriation Of Memory

Though digital technologies allow us to accomplish many things, we also have lost the ability to give each other our full attention. We prefer texting rather than fully engage in a conversation. An example in the book is Aubrey. Aubrey believes that texting allows her to stay in contact with more people at once because she can bounce from conversation to conversation. We as human beings, both children and adults, have identical patterns of compulsive disorders. We are obsessed with our devices. We never leave the house without our cell phones and what’s worse, we text or call people who are in the same house as us. While we are with our family and friends, we are also living in another world, where everyone accepts us for who we are through our cellular devices. Using our mobile devices, we can transport ourselves to different realities that we wish to have. These are online games that allow us to create our own avatar and live the life that we want to live. In that world, no one will be able to judge us for how we are. We are embracing ourselves through simulated lives with avatars and simulated relationships through virtual connections. Digital technologies have become the center of our social, economic, and professional

The last point is that technology has made it easier to capture and treasure these memories. Dickerson has said that he has captured more on his iPhone than his pen. “It has improved the process of engaging with life through pausing to capture it” (256). Due to this new technological revolution we can now record all of our lives and it only takes a second to capture instead of sitting still for a picture and waiting for our pictures to

The walls vibrated with colors and the strokes of pencil danced across the pages. Twist and turns of materials displayed in tall glasses cases for all eyes to see. The exhibit for all to see especially the students interested in learning additional information about Latino background. This is how I felt as I walked through Musel del Barrio. I was quite excited to go to the Museo del Barrio because it was one of the museums in New York City that I have not been to. During this semester, my interest in the Nuyorican movement has grown. I was interested in learning more about the movements and the impact the museum had on the community.

The museum represents the distinct way in which many of these artist were uplifted due to the ideas set forth by Ortiz. He was able to set out to gather a community in which people would feel proud and inspired by their cultural background. The main purpose of the museum was to promote a sense of identity and give the Latino community a way to promote their culture. The museum would eventually bring together the community and inform others of their prominent role in society. Also, it would help empower the Latino community, as the museum would voice their opinions through the artworks shown. El Museo is a representation of the cultural history and the way that people were able to establish a foundation of cultural unity. The positive impact that the museum had on the community was forced upon the people as they realized how important the culture was, as the community began to crumble. El Museo served as a way to preserve the culture and enforce the voices of the Latinos for future generations. (Hackshaw,

“Turn off the phone(and the Tension)” is an article written in 2012 by Jenna Wortham. On a summer day, Wortham and a friend decided to take a trip to their local pool. Upon their arrival, they noticed a sign stating that all electronics were to be kept in lockers. Flabbergasted, Wortham did as instructed and put her phone away. She spent a while lingering by her locker, desperate for social media and for the feeling of typing underneath her fingers. However, she soon got over her need for electronics. Wortham realized how technology impacts one’s life, she could barely go a day without her phone. As the author said, our phones have become our lifelines. When the majority of society has a smartphone and can’t take their hands off it, we know that our lives are run by our phones. We, as a society, suffer from the Fear of Missing Out, FOMO, we are afraid that we might miss a tweet from our favorite singer, actor, or role model and that will drive many insane. The day at the pool relaxed Wortham and she realized that not everything needs to be recorded, photographed, or snapchatted. Wortham’s article proves that we as a society cannot properly function without access to social media, technology, messages, emails, and phone calls.

In his June 12, 2015 article” Flick Flick”, published in Commonweal, Rand Richard Cooper argues that the technology of “handheld devices” interferes with being in present with others and being present with ourselves. He measures pieces of evidence to illustrate his point; for example, he mentions teens in a school bus busy with their phones and they do not communicate with each other. The author uses technology; however, he agrees that with the excessive uses of technology we lose the ability to communicate, the personal freedom and our time to our selves. Also the author claims that we lose the appreciation of nature around us and our ability to do the daily actions. Cooper even explains how people interact with their phones and cannot stop

This article provides information concerning: memories that society wants to acknowledge and pass on to future generations; the manner in which those memories are represented; the responsibility that society has to fully represent aspects of history while also brining into questions the unwillingness to recognise and respect different conceptions of history and how this can diminish the potential that museums have to advance cross-cultural understanding.

Thesis: Stay in the present moment, don’t let yourself believe you’re going to forget a memory because you didn’t document it through social media.

The theme of The Theft of Memory is somewhat of a social commentary, a personal and medical analysis of Alzheimer’s disease. Jonathan Kozol discusses his father’s decent into Alzheimer’s from his own point of view and how the experience related to their family as a whole. He shares his grief and suffering along with celebrating the impact that his father had on so many people throughout his lifetime. Jonathan tells stories from his father’s past to illustrate what an incredible doctor and amazing man he truly was. The documentation of his father’s illness is something that many people can relate to within their own families. As his illness progresses, Dr. Kozol tries to diagnose and treat himself at first before relinquishing that control to another doctor. Jonathan did everything in his power to maintain his father’s dignity throughout his life. The book documents the impact of Alzheimer’s disease on their family and tests the limits of Jonathan’s devotion to his parents.

In the book The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection, Michael Harris argues that as technology progresses society loses the experience of lacking. He continues to illustrate this point by saying we will eventually reach a time when true solitude is an outdated concept. Harris attempts to answer what exactly it means to be a part of the last generation that remembers life with and without the internet. Within each chapter, Harris discusses the fast-paced technological revolution with three themes becoming prevalent: Authenticity,

The essay itself, however, begins and ends with references to a scene toward the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey in which Dave goes about “calmly, coldly disconnecting” the computer HAL’s memory controls, effectively resetting the machine. He depicts this scene as a hard and emotionless human more or less murdering a pleading and terrified machine. Carr sees this as a warning to the viewers of losing parts of themselves that make them inherently human to machines. However, Carr neglects a part of today’s internet use that has had a great impact: the ease with which people can now share their experiences, thoughts, and creations. For example, many think of art as something inherently human, and it is now far easier than ever for people to share their creative pursuits and find new inspiration. When people use drawing tablets and sound software and photo editors, these things progress more. The plethora of social media accounts dedicated to creative pursuits influences the way many use computers. Another use to consider would be social media such as Instagram and Facebook. It has millions of users, many of whom share their daily experiences. Human thoughts, experiences, and creations are archived in massive amounts on the internet, and this type of use helps develop its progression in a significant way. While today’s technology is less advanced than that shown in 2001, I think it is worth noting the ways the internet helps people become more

Myth number 13 state that people repress memories of traumatic experiences. The text talks about the controversy in the pasts years in what really happens to the repress memory. In this myth, the idea of people’s not being able to report an event is not necessarily that they forgot the memory or even repressed it. It also argues that the belief of repress memory “seems to be a relatively recent product of our cultural dating from 19th century” (page 5, paragraph 2). Moreover, the text challenges the believe of repress memory existing as a method that our minds to repress traumas. Instead, it highlights that what we adopted as “repress memory” can be also interpret with other causes other than our minds putting away painful memories.

Nowadays we are surrounded by an abundance of technology in which public historians make use of this technology in order to make memories and history come alive. One of the more common ways public historians use technology to make memories interactive and interpretive are through documentaries and movies based on true stories. For example, the movie we watched in class on the Massacre of 1913 is a use of digital media. The use of digital technologies is important for public historians because many of citizens across the world are immersed in different technological devices and are up to date with technology. Public historians are taking advantage of this opportunity and are incorporating them into museums and public history sites to engage

Up until recently, people wracked by bad memories or haunted by traumatic pasts would have no hope of salvation. And those who seek salvation end up employing really unsafe methods in combating their psychic distress. People have become to accept that dealing with their pasts is part of the human condition, and have even used the coping aspect to define human consciousness. But what if the fast-advancing technology of technology developed a “cure” to painful memories? What if people could simply take a pill and all the memories they don’t want would be dampened or even completely erased? The notion of memory-dampening drugs has been widely received in the entire scientific field of neuroscience and pharmacology. They can not only erase a bad memory, but go so far as to treat addiction, victims of abuse, and mental illnesses like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). But it has also been a favorite for debate, as its use raises so many

In the “memory wars” research presented so far, psychologists have determined that CSA-recovered memories, whether spontaneously-recovered or therapy-recovered, are subject to memory distortion in the laboratory. While this seems to reject repression theory’s assertion that traumatic memories are somehow unique in their accuracy and long lifespan, false-memory theory has yet to explain the anomalies of recovered CSA memories in a clinical setting. In order to explain this, it is necessary to return to the beginning of this controversial debate: the nature of traumatic memory. Specifically, what makes post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) so memorable as opposed to CSA, which is sporadic in its remembrance? As a potential