Jacobsen, Benjamin orcid.org/0000-0002-6656-8892 (2022) When is the right time to remember?: Social media memories, temporality and the kairologic. New media & society. ISSN 1461-7315
Abstract
This article asks what impact temporality and timing have on the ways in which memories are felt and made to matter on social media. Drawing on Taina Bucher’s theorisation of the ‘kairologic’ of algorithmic media, I explore how digital memories are resurfaced or made visible to people at the ‘right time’ in the present. The article proposes the notion of ‘right-time memories’ to examine the ways in which social media platforms and timing performatively shape people’s engagement with the past. Drawing on interview and focus group data, I explore four ways that right-time memories are sociotechnically produced and felt in everyday life: through an anniversary logic, personalisation, rhythms, and tensions. Ultimately, it is argued that when memories are made to matter in the present is a crucial way to further examine the temporal politics of social media platforms and algorithms
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2022 |
Keywords: | algorithm,memory,social media,timing |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Sociology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 06 Oct 2023 09:30 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 19:30 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221096768 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/14614448221096768 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:204020 |
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