Print Email Facebook Twitter Speak, memory Title Speak, memory: the postphenomenological analysis of memory-making in the age of algorithmically powered social networks Author Kudina, O. (TU Delft Values Technology and Innovation; TU Delft Ethics & Philosophy of Technology) Department Values Technology and Innovation Date 2022 Abstract This paper explores the productive role that social network platforms such as Facebook, play in the practice of memory-making. While such platforms facilitate interaction across distance and time, they also solidify human self-expression and memory-making by systematically confronting the users with their digital past. By relying on the framework of postphenomenology, the analysis will scrutinize the mediating role of the Memories feature of Facebook, powered by recurring algorithmic scheduling and devoid of meaningful context. More specifically, it will show how this technological infrastructure mediates the concepts of memory, control and space, evoking a specific interpretation of the values of time, remembering and forgetting. As such, apart from preserving memories, Facebook appears as their co-producer, guiding the users in determining the criteria for remembering and forgetting. The paper finishes with suggestions on how to critically appropriate the memory-making features of social network platforms that would both enable their informed use and account for their mediating role in co-shaping good memories. Subject OA-Fund TU Delft To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:42e2ec87-3ee4-41fa-a502-d1b8536ee3b0 DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00972-x Source Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9 (1) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2022 O. Kudina Files PDF s41599_021_00972_x.pdf 455.85 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:42e2ec87-3ee4-41fa-a502-d1b8536ee3b0/datastream/OBJ/view