At the same time, our attention is hacked in our search for digital dopamine hits and our entire ‘pattern of life’ is surveilled at scale for profit, propaganda and for targeting, shaping new forms of warfare.
My research illuminates the paradoxical role of digital technologies in both assisting memory’s public recovery and its capacity to haunt future generations, and also in shaping new kinds of war, memory and forgetting. I am Professor of Global Security at the University of Glasgow and I founded the Journals of Digital War , Memory Studies , and Memory, Mind & Media .
Why do we obsess over memory? Swamped in connectivities and cultures of remembrance and haunted by digital traces, how individuals and societies forget is both an urgent and overlooked question of our age.