This week’s symposium is related to cultural memory.

-three dimensions-material, social, mental

-material-youtube/social-people/mental-thinking

-collective memory brought up by Maurice halnwachs in 1920s

-connection of cultural and socio-cultural contexts

-Jeffrey K.Olick-two radically different culture concept over here, people’s subjective mind (individual) and patterns of publicly objectified in society(collective)

-biological memory (we remember in social context) and symbolic order (reconstruct a shared past)

-ways that technology may affect human experience

-technologies may have specific properties or characteristics that play a role in facilitating the occurrence of certain kinds of experiences, but irrelevant to social institutions and power

There are lots of forms of media like YouTube and Facebook in our life that archives the past, becomes part of cultural memory.