Digital Memories Of Youth : A Study Of Mediated Memories Of The Golden Oldie

Based on the nostalgic hot spots of "Renaissance" of the Chinese music all over the Internet.This thesis puts the media platform station B and the golden oldie case "Seven Miles of Fragrance" into the field of memory research,and discusses the practical problem of the frenzy of nostalgia about golden oldies in the digital age.From the perspective of mediation,this thesis outlines the mediating properties and the evolution of medium carriers of music,and then extends the reflection on the mediated memory practice of the golden oldie.In the case study,based on the mediated practice of memory groups and their empirical materials,this thesis depicts the memories of "Seven Miles of Fragrance" in the Cyber world in three aspects: the performance and presentation in memory space,the memory theme of "youth",and the narrative framework of golden oldies memory.By means of the theoretical framework of the "mediated memories",this thesis analyzes how the memory practice of the golden oldie achieves the memory connection from "individual to collective" and "from past to future" in two dimensions:relationship and time,as well as the synchronic relationship and diachronic significance generated therefrom.In addition,the three links of embodied,enabled and embedded as the formation of mediated memories,reflecting the process of embodied experience of individuals in digital age embedded in cultural practices through enabling technologies,which essentially reveals the dynamic relationship between human,technology and society.Finally,based on the case study,I find that the social influence brought by the memory practice in the digital age of golden oldies is mainly reflected in two aspects:recall and creation,overload and deviation.On the one hand,the memory groups have realized the retrospection and reconstruction of youth utopia,the cohesion and innovation of collective memory,and the activation and derivation of platform ecology in the practice of golden oldies memories.On the other hand,the overload information and entertainment-style deconstruction of golden oldies have become the flow codes of the consumer society,while the circle properties of multicultural communities are prone to the decoding differences of memory information.Therefore,we should avoid falling into the sentimental consumption co-constructed by digital traffic and algorithmic mechanism,reflecting on the rational dissipation and pessimistic arguments of "Chinese music scene is past".Under the golden oldie orgy,we should try to seek the most obscure music under the digital segmentation market with a positive and open mind.