Earlier today I was speaking with Jed (http://www.jedbrubaker.com/), who’s an amazing PhD student from UC-Irvine. He asked me a question about, the significance of digital objects specifically photos and if the significance we hold them to has changed somehow because they are now an abundant resource.
Upon reflection, I wrote him an email to further our discussion about this topic. This is very similar to the email I sent Jed, with some edits.
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A lot of the literature regarding digital memories (aka Human Digital Memories or Whittaker’s Computer Mediated Memories) focuses on our experiences that take place in the natural world;
My friend, Chad’s capstone is about capturing digital experiences of MMORPG players.
After combing through capstone papers related to digital memories, and I’ve noticed that many papers refer to capturing “real” physical experiences, but do not mention online counterparts. Things such as playing MMORPG’s, facebook exchanges, or chats are real and should be captured if a person so chooses. (We already do this to some degree in all three mentioned areas, but there is still much word to be done (i.e. sense and meaning making, etc.).)
A concept I need to introduce for my capstone will be dealing with both online and physical experiences.
