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‘Mmmmm quanti, ma quanti ricordi mi evocano queste foto …’: Facebook and the 1977 family album : the digital (r)evolution of a protest generation
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Hajek, Andrea (2012) ‘Mmmmm quanti, ma quanti ricordi mi evocano queste foto …’: Facebook and the 1977 family album : the digital (r)evolution of a protest generation. Italian Studies, Volume 67 (Number 3). pp. 375-396. doi:10.1179/0075163412Z.00000000025 ISSN 0075-1634.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/0075163412Z.00000000025
Abstract
Memories are increasingly shaped and shared through the media, in particular visual media such as photography. However, it is not just the images that allow for memories to enter our individual and collective identities: the latter take shape in the mediation of the past through images. In other words, the very act of selecting, storing, and sharing visual data has an impact on the way the past is recalled and identities are reconstructed in the present. What happens, though, when photo albums go digital, and private snapshots become available to all? This article analyses the collective sharing of a series of photo albums of the 1977 student movement in Bologna, on the social networking site Facebook, in 2011. It explores how the collective (hi)story of the 1977 generation is reproduced online, why this specific medium was so successful in reconnecting these people thirty-five years later, and what the impact is of digital media and social networks on the reconstruction of collective identities in the present.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Other > Institute of Advanced Study Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology |
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Journal or Publication Title: | Italian Studies | ||||
Publisher: | Maney Publishing | ||||
ISSN: | 0075-1634 | ||||
Official Date: | 2012 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 67 | ||||
Number: | Number 3 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 375-396 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1179/0075163412Z.00000000025 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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