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Seeking Digital Redemption: The Future Of Forgiveness In The Internet Age, Meg Leta Ambrose
Seeking Digital Redemption: The Future Of Forgiveness In The Internet Age, Meg Leta Ambrose
Meg Leta Ambrose
The Right to be Forgotten, a controversial privacy right that allows users to make information about themselves less accessible after a period of time, is hailed as a pillar of information privacy in some countries while condemned as censorship in others. Psychological and behavioral research indicates that one’s capacity to forget features of the past - or remember them in a different way - is deeply connected to his or her power to forgive others and move on, which in turn, has dramatic impacts on well-being. Second chances and the reinvention of self are deeply intertwined with American history and …
Persuasive Visions: Film And Memory, Jessica M. Silbey
Persuasive Visions: Film And Memory, Jessica M. Silbey
Jessica Silbey
This commentary takes a new look at law and film studies through the lens of film as memory. Instead of describing film as evidence and foreordaining its role in truth-seeking processes, it thinks instead of film as individual, institutional and cultural memory, placing it squarely within the realm of contestability. Paralleling film genres, the commentary imagines four forms of memory that film could embody: memorabilia (cinema verite), memoirs (autobiographical and biographical film), ceremonial memorials (narrative film monuments of a life, person or institution), and mythic memory (dramatic fictional film). Imagining film as memory resituates film’s role in law (procedural, substantive …