The study provided an insight into how the relationship between personal and historical memory is co-articulated on geosocial platforms. Large data set of geotagged, Footnote 1 user-generated images and their text-based metadataįrom three European public squares posted on Flickr, this chapter discusses how online practices of sharing images of place on social media platforms reconfigure the interrelations between memory, identity The idea that social media could offer a further opportunity for the exploration of non-institutional memory is undoubtedly appealing, particularly considering the potential to work with materials that are both unsolicited (by the researchers) and embedded in contemporary, everyday practices.ĭrawing on the study (Arrigoni et al. Indeed, conversational remembering is at the core of established methodologies in the field of memory studies in this context, the orality of the interview is expected to support an engagement with vernacular forms of memory, often in antithesis with official ones (Mihelj 2013). In particular, the communicative nature of online practices constitutes an additional asset for researchers and an element of complexity. Of public spaces on social media offers memory scholars the opportunity to reconsider the role of place as a catalyst for transmitting memory (Schama 1995 Basu 2013). The unprecedented circulation of user-generated images This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. In this context, we propose a set of methodological insights focusing on the role of the geotag to develop understandings around the circulation and solidification of place-memory in the digital realm. To do so, it explores how the relationship between personal memory and historical memory of place is articulated on geosocial platforms. Drawing on the study of a large data set of geotagged images (including text-based metadata) from three European public squares posted on Flickr, this chapter discusses how online practices are reconfiguring the interrelations between memory, identity, and citizenship. The unprecedented circulation of user-generated images of public spaces on social media offers memory scholars the opportunity to reconsider the role of place as a catalyst for transmitting memory.