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In this session, Dr Francesca Sobande explores the role of digital technology in experiences of memory-making, including forms of nostalgia, reminiscing, and memorialising.
The discussion outlines some of the ways that digital remix culture has developed in recent years, while reflecting on the relationship between this and the creation of collective memories, both before and during the COVID-19 crisis. Focusing on themes such as humour, care, commodification, intimacy, grief, and time, Sobande asks people to remember when? and critically consider how their memories may be entangled with digital culture.
Dr Francesca Sobande is a lecturer in digital media studies at Cardiff University. Her work particularly focuses on digital remix culture, Black diaspora and archives, feminism, creative work, pop culture, and devolved nations. Francesca is the author of The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020), co-editor with Professor Akwugo Emejulu of To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe (Pluto Press, 2019), and co-author with layla-roxanne hill of Black Oot Here: Black Lives in Scotland (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2022). More information about her work can be found on her website.
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