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Digital Monuments of Collective Memory: How to visualise collective memory made up of digital memories left on Instagram?

My study started with the desire to visualise graphically how people’s digital memories can be recollected and how the popular social media, Instagram in particular, recreates shared memory. Also, this study aims to show collectivisation of memory using design methods, and to help people understand more about the construction of collective memory in the digital space. Moreover, the study provides people who use social media with the opportunity to think about collective memory created by their actions of posting and sharing.

People need to know how their memory is recollected digitally and Instagram, being a social media based on photography, is the best means to collect photographic, digital memories of people. Because London is a place for both students and tourists who enjoy taking pictures of landmarks, it has become the object of my study and I found it very interesting to observe tourists’ behaviour from a different perspective.