Social Media and Ourselves

Timelessness


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Digital memory is perfect. Thanks to technology we remember so much more than we used to. And that's good...or is it? Featuring more stories by college students about the once-cool outfits, hairstyles, and moments that bring shame on social media later; then a story of surviving a mass shooting only to relive it in response to a photo on Facebook; and an interview with Diana's sister about Diana's MC Hammer pants and her hideous blazer that mysteriously disappeared in middle school.
Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gimp2upjYxzLyN42e-RJQ3ISbKy8mMfO/view?usp=sharing
Analysis from the 2012 Keble London Lecture by Victor Mayer-Schönberger, author of Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age https://books.google.com/books?id=ZrqvYOBm_sMC&lpg=PP1&ots=6pdpM-ALbT&lr&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
Music in this episode:
David Szestay, Suspicious Strings http://freemusicarchive.org/music/David_Szesztay/20170730112627115/Suspicious_Strings
Podington Bear, Lamb http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/Rhythm_and_Strings/Lamb_1842
Chad Crouch, Peanut Shells http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chad_Crouch/Electric_Piano_Duets/Peanut_Shells
Kai Engel, Global Warming https://soundcloud.com/kaiengel/global-warming
AJ "DJ UnME" Reynolds featuring Big MC, Can't Touch This (cover) https://soundcloud.com/djunme/big-mc-you-cant-touch-this
Image by Enokson via Flickr
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Social Media and OurselvesBy Diana Daly of the University of Arizona iSchool

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