Memory Online

Qi Wang is Professor of Human Development, Psychology, and Cognitive Science at Cornell University, USA. Her research focuses on the impact of cultural forces – including the Internet and social media – on memory and psychosocial functioning. She is the author of The Autobiographical Self in Time and Culture (2013).

• Introduction: Memory Online 1. Information without knowledge: the effects of Internet search on learning 2. Pretesting can be beneficial even when using the internet to answer questions 3. The gist of it: offloading memory does not reduce the benefit of list categorisation 4. On our susceptibility to external memory store manipulation: examining the influence of perceived reliability and expected access to an external store 5. Replicating autobiographical memory research using social media: a case study 6. Remembering online and offline: the effects of retrieval contexts, cues, and intervals on autobiographical memory 7. Why do people share memories online? An examination of the motives and characteristics of social media users 8. Persistence of false memories and emergence of collective false memory: collaborative recall of DRM word lists 9. Deepfake false memories 10. He did it! Or did I just see him on Twitter? Social media influence on eyewitness identification