This book presents cutting-edge research on memory in the age of the Internet and social media. The empirical studies reported in the ten chapters address the influence of the digital age on remembering in three broad areas: offloading memory and the associated costs, benefits, and boundary conditions; autobiographical memory online; and false memory at a time of fake news and misinformation.
These studies employ innovative and rigorous methodological approaches that are ecologically valid in the online context. Their findings reveal complex and dynamic characteristics of human memory in a digitally mediated world that shapes our learning, our sense of self, and our beliefs and decision making. Collectively, the chapters in this volume provide rich theoretical insights into the workings and functions of memory. This book ushers in a new era of research on memory in the age of digitization.
Memory Online will be a beneficial read for students and scholars of Psychology, Cognitive Science, Communication, and Media Studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Memory.
This book addresses the influence of digital age on remembering in three broad areas: offloading memory and associated costs, benefits, and boundary conditions; autobiographical memory online; and false memory at a time of fake news and misinformation. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Memory.
Introduction: Memory Online
1. Information without knowledge: the
effects of Internet search on learning
2. Pretesting can be beneficial even
when using the internet to answer questions
3. The gist of it: offloading
memory does not reduce the benefit of list categorisation
4. On our
susceptibility to external memory store manipulation: examining the influence
of perceived reliability and expected access to an external store
5.
Replicating autobiographical memory research using social media: a case study
6. Remembering online and offline: the effects of retrieval contexts, cues,
and intervals on autobiographical memory
7. Why do people share memories
online? An examination of the motives and characteristics of social media
users
8. Persistence of false memories and emergence of collective false
memory: collaborative recall of DRM word lists
9. Deepfake false memories
10.
He did it! Or did I just see him on Twitter? Social media influence on
eyewitness identification
Qi Wang is Professor of Human Development, Psychology, and Cognitive Science at Cornell University, USA. Her research focuses on the impact of cultural forces including the Internet and social media on memory and psychosocial functioning. She is the author of The Autobiographical Self in Time and Culture (2013).
