{"id":4,"date":"2014-09-18T23:56:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T06:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/indy\/?p=4"},"modified":"2014-09-18T23:56:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T06:56:59","slug":"facebook-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/indy\/2014\/09\/18\/facebook-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In Farhat Shahzad\u2019s article,<i>The Role of Interpretive Communities in Remembering and Learning, <\/i>she writes about the use of technologies of memory in interpretive communities. She states that \u201chuman beings interpret, relate, select, record, share, and tell their memories with the help of a variety of technologies of memory such as media, textbooks, documents, the internet, museums, monuments, and landscapes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Though I never thought of social media in a scholarly way such as a \u201ctechnology of memory,\u201d I think Facebook is a great example of it. With the rapid rise of the internet, the ways in which people connect and communicate with one another has significantly changed and is continuously changing all the time. Facebook itself is a community, and there are thousands of different communities within it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While I was looking through the page of a recently joined group, I noticed some connections with what Shahzad shared in her article, and saw Facebook in somewhat of a different way. The specific page I was looking at was called \u201cFriends of Dan Mindich.\u201d This page was created in memory of a teacher from my previous school who had tragically died during a rough water swim earlier this month. There were several posts about Dan from fellow colleagues and students in Hawaii, as well as people from his hometown in New York, close friends in Africa, and college classmates, all spread throughout the continental US. The posts included pictures of Dan from classes, weddings, vacations, and reunions, as well as some anecdotes on his silly outgoing personality or the ways in which he changed the lives of those around him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Although the circumstances of the page was very sad and unfortunate, I think it\u2019s a pretty awesome thing that came out of this tragedy. It\u2019s a place where all these different people from around the world can come together in this sort of online \u201ccommunity\u201d and share stories, pictures, lessons, etc, of Dan that can be available for everyone no matter where they are.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Farhat Shahzad\u2019s article,The Role of Interpretive Communities in Remembering and Learning, she writes about the use of technologies of memory in interpretive communities. She states that \u201chuman beings interpret, relate, select, record, share, and tell their memories with the help of a variety of technologies of memory such as media, textbooks, documents, the internet, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/indy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/indy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/indy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/indy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/indy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/indy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/indy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/indy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/indy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/indy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}