Table of contents:AcknowledgementsIntroduction. Social Networks and Looking Back The past is just a story we tell our followers Facebook and Looking Back: #10YearsChallenge, On This Day, MemoriesChapter One. From Social Networks to Digital ArchivesThe Twenty Days of Turin: Facebook in 1977Naked in front of the Computer: Social Networks in the 1990s The World Doubled: Reincarnation or the Cocaine of the Future? Blogs, Forums, Mailing Lists: A New Life in 56KThe Era of Shared Passions: An Epidemic of Digital Memories Digital Memory as Crazed Mayonnaise: The Past is Emancipated, Identities MultiplyChapter Two. Collective Cultural Autobiographies and Encyclopedias of the Dead 2.0 Experiments in Collective Cultural AutobiographyCopy and Paste: Writing About Oneself is Like Summing Up the History of the Universe Cancer Bloggers: My Message is My BodyStories of Cancer Bloggers on YouTube and FacebookFacebook: Encyclopedia of the Dead 2.0?Autobiographical Memory: Inventing a Forgotten PastDisinterred Bodies: Social Networks and Data Flows as Archives Chapter Three. Total Recall, Digital Immortality, RetromaniaBecoming the Database of Ourselves: Lifelogging and Video-camera Memory The Memobile: From Total Recall to Digital ImmortalityThe Memory Remains: The Life of Memories Post-MortemMind-Uploading as a Declaration of Independence for Memories Insomnia Inside a Garbage Heap: Funes, or of a Life that Never Forgets Creating Space in Memory: Forgetting and Sleep as Forms of Resistance The Web as a Melancholy Receptacle of Regret: Hollie Gazzard, The Last Message Received, WartherapyRetromania and Sad Passions: The End of Nostalgia and the Loss of the FutureSan Junipero Exists and Lives in FacebookConclusion. Digital Inheritance and a Return to OblivionDigital Inheritance: What to Do with our Own Memories?The Value of Oblivion and the Joy of Being Forgotten BibliographyNotesIndex

‘In Remember Me, Davide Sisto takes readers on a delightful journey through the annals of internet history. His deft theorizing of social media, past and present, reveals how digital media impact both intimate and collective relationships to time and memory.’Tamara Kneese, University of San Francisco