Forgetting as a Function: When the Internet Wants to Remember, How Can We Learn to Forget?

Sarah Welsh

Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy Jan 2020 web Open Access

Forgetting as a Function: When the Internet Wants to Remember, How Can We Learn to Forget?

Sarah Welsh

Abstract

In this article, I propose a social process for digital forgetting (or promoting forgetfulness of media traces that should be relatively inconsequential) using one successful example from Twitter. One example is of course not exhaustive, but it was chosen as a representative model of the ways users are learning to forget. If our systems are not built to forget, we might consider how we can do so not (only) by combating technological functions, but by working with them.

Journal: Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy
Published: 2020-01
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Topics: social media
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