ABSTRACT

The Internet has produced a globally connected framework for moving and storing memories into, from and between personal, corporate and institutional archives. The theory of global and digital memory has moved further forward than the practice. In Anna Reading's keynote speech, Towards a Philosophy of the Globital Memory Field', she asks us to rethink memory in the light of the new communication ecologies' of networked and mobile media'. Media are in permanent states of transition. Digital media facilitate the possibilities of narrative co-production and participation. So, the main idea of a social memory technology is to empower the people and the communities in themselves. Thus, memory work is operating within cultural and heritage contexts on a vertical and horizontal axis not only a temporal scale of vertical deep past and in the horizontal moment of remembering but also in spatial.