Abstract
In everyday language, we use the terms ‘remember’ and ‘forget’ to express two very different temporal meanings (Neisser, 1982) — we remember, or forget, what happened in the past, and we remember, or forget, what we need to do in the future, or what we promised ourselves or others we would do: pick up the dry cleaning, get a gift for mother’s day, finish a journal review, follow through on campaign promises, bring our kids home from school; or at the national level, and the example that I will use in this essay — bring our hostages home from captivity.
| Original language | American English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | On media memory |
| Subtitle of host publication | Collective memory in a new media age |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 213-225 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2011 |