Davide Sisto is a researcher in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Turin.

Table of contents:Acknowledgements
Introduction. Social Networks and Looking Back
The past is just a story we tell our followers
Facebook and Looking Back: #10YearsChallenge, On This Day, Memories
Chapter One. From Social Networks to Digital Archives
The Twenty Days of Turin: Facebook in 1977
Naked in front of the Computer: Social Networks in the 1990s
The World Doubled: Reincarnation or the Cocaine of the Future?
Blogs, Forums, Mailing Lists: A New Life in 56K
The Era of Shared Passions: An Epidemic of Digital Memories
Digital Memory as Crazed Mayonnaise: The Past is Emancipated, Identities Multiply
Chapter Two. Collective Cultural Autobiographies and Encyclopedias of the Dead 2.0
Experiments in Collective Cultural Autobiography
Copy and Paste: Writing About Oneself is Like Summing Up the History of the Universe
Cancer Bloggers: My Message is My Body
Stories of Cancer Bloggers on YouTube and Facebook
Facebook: Encyclopedia of the Dead 2.0?
Autobiographical Memory: Inventing a Forgotten Past
Disinterred Bodies: Social Networks and Data Flows as Archives
Chapter Three. Total Recall, Digital Immortality, Retromania
Becoming the Database of Ourselves: Lifelogging and Video-camera Memory
The Memobile: From Total Recall to Digital Immortality
The Memory Remains: The Life of Memories Post-Mortem
Mind-Uploading as a Declaration of Independence for Memories
Insomnia Inside a Garbage Heap: Funes, or of a Life that Never Forgets
Creating Space in Memory: Forgetting and Sleep as Forms of Resistance
The Web as a Melancholy Receptacle of Regret: Hollie Gazzard, The Last Message Received, Wartherapy
Retromania and Sad Passions: The End of Nostalgia and the Loss of the Future
San Junipero Exists and Lives in Facebook
Conclusion. Digital Inheritance and a Return to Oblivion
Digital Inheritance: What to Do with our Own Memories?
The Value of Oblivion and the Joy of Being Forgotten
Bibliography
Notes
Index