Memória vestível : um estudo sobre o contexto da memória em rede a partir do Google Glass

Abstract

Informational mobility has made possible various cultural transformations, among these transformations there is a new kind of nomadism, with wich we came to comunicate and produce content any time. As the wearables arrived to the Market, we began to have an intimate relation between technology and our body. Always on devices capture our information and act independently, storaging and evoking them when necessary. From these tecnological transformations resides also a constant concern with memory. Our production of information as a way to externalize the memory is growing and is related to our nomadic way of life provided by computing tecnologies. In order to understand the relations of social memory and facing the wearables scenario, the present work analises the photographic production in Google Glass aiming to discuss the externalization of memory through wearable computers, as a first look at the issue. The main authors used to theoretical basis of this research were Halbwachs, Le Goff, Garde-Hansen, Dijck, Ernst, Maffesoli, Lemos, Mitchell, McLuhan and Mann. Trough the method of Cultural Analytics, used to analyze huge volumes of image in a computerized way, there were developed different media views from information extracted from 680 images taken by Google Glass camera and posted on Flickr under Creative Commons license for 13 months. The results are divided into points of rupture and points of continuity in relation to photography and memory. There are evidences in the analyzed photographs of repetition of frameworks and themes that are traditional in photography and that are owned by a collective memory. However, we can also identify constituent elements of a language, brought by the use of Google Glass. The position of the camera above the eyes of the wearer print a point of view that can impact the evocation of memories afterwards. Indicative traits of learning in relation to the device, the predominance of outdoor photographs and forms of being present in the photographs also help to form an identity of these images through what they can influence memory.