CONNECTION BETWEEN STORYTELLING AND MEMORY. HOW DO OUR MEMORIES SHIFT EACH TIME WE TELL A STORY? DO WE SEE THIS? HEAR THIS? TASTE THIS? SMELL THIS? TOUCH THIS?
http://www.jstor.org/stable/541906?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

the internet is a new web of memory. collective moments and feelings are shared on comment sections, blogs, and forums. i don't want to do something that is like "woah... the internet... it's so cool..." i think that is a bit of a tired subject. but it is cool to see how the internet allows for a greater web of collective memory.

 "They propose to look at the archive that is the material background of biographical research as a strategic and symbolic space to discuss questions of memory and the ways in which past and present strategies of narrating and documenting women’s lives are intertwined."  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539599000102
                    --- self-documenting as a form of preserving memory but ALSO of placing oneself in the present. It includes the active decision to include, or not to include, moments of our lives.