Remembering me: big data, individual identity, and the psychological necessity of forgetting

the crisis of identity in jhumpa lahiris fiction: interpreter of maladies and the namesake

شکل گیری هویت(identity) مقوله مهمی در ادبیات پراکنده مردم(diasporan literature) می باشد. آثار جومپا لاهیری(jhumpa lahiri) ، نویسنده هندی آمریکایی، در سالهای اخیر تحسین منتقدین را به خود معطوف کرده است. وی در این آثار زندگی مهاجران و تلاش آنان برای پیدا کردن جایگاهشان در یک فرهنگ بیگانه را به تصویر کشیده است. این تجربه همواره با احساساتی نظیر دلتنگی برای گذشته، بیگانگی و دوری همراه است. با این ح...

Remembering and Forgetting

REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING Do you remember your first day in the school? On what day did you go to the market last week? Can you name your friends? In our everyday life almost all activities in one or the other way deal with memory. Loss of memory means loss of one's self. Learning will make no sense if it is not retained by the person. It is only through the capacity of memory that we are able...

Big Data, the crowd and me

Like many of you, I’ve been swept up by the romance of Big Data. But instead of stepping back and taking the long view, in this account I plan to get enmired in the details and tell you a story about my own Big Data dalliance. Furthermore, in an effort to explore some fresh territory, I’m not going to take a curatorial perspective (see, for example, Borgman, Wallis, and Mayernik, 2010, or Tibbo...

The Work of Forgetting and Remembering Places

Remembering Another Aspect of Forgetting

Although forgetting is most often thought of in terms of declines in performance (response loss or impairment), another class of memory phenomena, the forgetting of stimulus attributes, has begun to attract experimental attention. In non-human animals, the loss of memory for stimulus features is reflected in the flattening of stimulus generalization gradients as well as in the attenuation of th...