# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Book Talk | The Remaking of Memory in the Age of the Internet and Social Media
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 13 Nov, 2025 at 04:30 am – Thu, 13 Nov, 2025 at 05:30 am
- **Event Description**: How have new technologies and media affected our capacity for memory? Until recently, optimism about the potential for strengthening individuals' memory through the storage, representational, reproductive, and connective capacities of digital media has prevailed. But these past views of how memory works are being challenged amidst today's digital maelstrom. In particular, the Internet, and social media platforms, have profoundly transformed the ways individuals receive, store, share, and lose information. Memory has become more externalized, dialogical, and transactive, yet, at the same time, unwieldy, opaque, and inaccessible.

In The Remaking of Memory in the Age of the Internet and Social Media published by Oxford University Press in 2024, Qi Wang (professor of human development, psychology, and cognitive science at Cornell University) and Andrew Hoskins (professor of AI, memory and war, University of Edinburgh) have assembled scholars from cognitive psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, and media and communication studies to synthesize emerging social and cognitive science research on the impact of the Internet and social media on remembering and forgetting. They probe whether human memory is being threatened by a shift from a healthy reliance to a dependency on digital media and technologies. 

Please join us for this Chats in the Stacks book talk, for a discussion of the recent research described in this important new book and the implications it suggests for us as individuals and the families, communities, and societies in which we live. 

This is a hybrid event. For those who cannot join us in person, please register for virtual attendance at 

https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tWe120NITPitSYns8U7Bcg

Location: Mann Library, Room: 160
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/ithaca/book-talk-|-the-remaking-of-memory-in-the-age-of-the-internet-and-social-media/200029186208936
- **Event Categories**: workshops, virtual, webinar
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 9

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Ithaca
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University
- **lat**: 42.448770696581
- **long**: -76.476650995135
- **full address**: Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University, 260 Tower Rd, Ithaca, NY 14853-7202, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Book Talk | The Remaking of Memory in the Age of the Internet and Social Media being held?
  - **A:** Book Talk | The Remaking of Memory in the Age of the Internet and Social Media takes place on Thu, 13 Nov, 2025 at 04:30 am to Thu, 13 Nov, 2025 at 05:30 am at Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University, 260 Tower Rd, Ithaca, NY 14853-7202, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Book Talk | The Remaking of Memory in the Age of the Internet and Social Media?
  - **A:** Book Talk | The Remaking of Memory in the Age of the Internet and Social Media is organized by Cornell University Library.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Book Talk | The Remaking of Memory in the Age of the Internet and Social Media is ideal for learners, working professionals, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Ithaca, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Book Talk | The Remaking of Memory in the Age of the Internet and Social Media sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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