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Figure 36 | Nova Jugoslavija, website, http://www.novajugoslavija.eu/en/nova-jugoslavija-informations/1.html.
Conclusion
When I first attempted to approach Facebook historical profiles as the object of research, the
whole endeavour seemed fairly vague and difficult to grasp. Indeed, tracing the externalisations of
memory, digital storytelling and remediations of the past appeared tauntingly overwhelming. In
light of endless profile changes, rapid updates and ever-new posts, keeping track is on the verge of
impossible. And even if one would be able to make a consistent record of everything posted, this
would still only make a partial record, far from comprehensive. Still, as a place of digital
sociability which daily preoccupies a not insignificant number of people, an important shift is
underway in the ways memory is externalised via profiles by both owners/admins and users.
Considering the arbitrarily posting/commenting on the stuff that users stumble upon (hovering
attention), occasional provocation and taking stuff at face value, it could be said that remembering
as unravelling on Facebook has become an utterly mundane preoccupation. Moreover, exchanges
going on Facebook can be seen as clearly affective stimuli that can be discerned in many heated
posts and responses. So, what in all this most ordinary interaction is the role of memory and
remembering?
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