Social Amnesia

The development of social familiarity in rodents depends predominantly on olfactory cues and can critically influence reproductive success. Researchers have operationally defined this memory by a reliable decrease in olfactory investigation in repeated or prolonged encounters with a conspecific. HIGH-TECH AMERICANA - SOCIAL AMNESIA: A Live Movie, conceived, written, designed and directed by Impossible Theater and John Schneider. Inspired by Russell Jacoby's 'Social Amnesia' and Howard. Social Amnesia makes sure your andaccounts only show your posts from recent history, not from 'that phase' 5 years ago. Want to know more? Check out the GitHub to contribute, download the latest release, and find out more information. Social Amnesia is an effort to remember what is perpetually lost under the pressure of society. It is simultaneously a critique of present practices and theories in psychology.

Social Amnesia aims to make your social media (twitter/reddit) only exist within a time period that you choose. For many people, there is no reason they want to have years old tweets or reddit comments publicly accessible. With Social Amnesia, set the time period you want to keep, whitelist posts and items you want to preserve indefinitely, and let Social Amnesia wipe the rest out of existence.

Sponsor the development of Social Amnesia

You can sponsor me on GitHub to fund the continued development of Social Amnesia!You can also make a one-time donation directly via:

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How to build/run Social Amnesia

Executables

This is the simplest option. Bundled and easily usable files for Mac, Windows and Linux are available on the releases page.

How to run Social Amnesia from the command line

First, clone this repo.

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In order to run Social Amnesia, you will need to set up Reddit and Twitter APIs.

For Reddit, you will want to create an installed app using https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps. Set your redirect url to be https://google.com. Then you will need to create a redditSecrets.ts file in the src/ directory:

Drivers gbm software input devices. For Twitter, create an app using https://developer.twitter.com/en/apps, enable Sign in with Twitter, set the Callback URL to be https://google.com, and then create a twitterSecrets.ts file in the src/ directory:

Then you can run yarn run electron:serve and start developing!

How to build the executables for Social Amnesia

Simply run yarn run electron:serve once you have completed the steps above. Output is sent to the dist_electron folder.

Sites and Features

Delete comments and posts, individually or en masse.
Edits your posts before deleting them. According to the reddit admins this is an effective way to remove content from reddit.
Keep a time range of comments and submissions.
Keep comments or submissions that reach a certain amount of upvotes.
Whitelist specific posts and comments you want to save.
Schedule deletions daily.

Twitter

Delete tweets, retweets, replies and remove 'favorites' (aka ❤️'s), individually or en masse.
Keep a time range of tweets, retweets, replies and favorites.
- In the case of favorites, this is done by the time the favorited item was created, NOT the time it was favorited at.
Keep tweets that have reached a certain amount of retweets or favorites.
- This option ignores retweets, these will be removed no matter what if they are out of the time range.
Whitelist specific tweets and favorites you want to save.
Schedule deletions daily.

Contributing

Contributions are not only welcomed but greatly appreciated. If you have any idea for a new feature, or find a bug, you can open up a new issue and report it. Better yet, fork this project, write up some code, and submit a new pull request.

Don't feel comfortable coding? That's okay! There are plenty of other ways to contribute to this project:

The easiest is to just share it. Post it (ironically?) on your social media. Tell your friends and family. Launch t-shirts at bewildered pedestrians. Drop pamphlets out of air planes. Get creative!
UX people are needed to help make mockups to improve the design of the application.
Do you have a social media account with lots of posts you would like to donate to the cause? Accounts like these can be used to help us bug hunt. Open an issue or tweet @NickGottschlich.
Be a user tester! Just record your experience using this the first time using screen recording software and upload it as an issue. Better yet if you can record yourself talking through your thoughts as you try out the software for the first time!

Limitations

Reddit
- reddit API currently only indexes ~1k most recent items back (confirmed for comments, not submissions)
Twitter
- twitter API currently only indexes ~3200 tweets and favorites back

Tech talks / Blog Posts

Note: These talks and posts may be using the user interface from Social Media 1.0, which looks significantly different from the new version!

@NickGottschlich spoke about Social Amnesia at the Austin Python Monthly Meetup on April 10th, 2019.

Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPv_pLofedU

Link to slides: https://nickpgott.com/files/AbusingSocialMediaAPIs.pdf

Medium Article about Social Amnesia: https://medium.com/@nickpgott/ab-using-social-media-apis-using-python-for-privacys-sake-7091b3f76666

Related software

Shreddit - a python program to delete reddit posts/submissions.
Reddit Overwrite - a greasey fork program to overwrite reddit comments.
Reddit Secure Delete - a userscript program to delete reddit comments.
Nuke Reddit History - a web extension to erase reddit history.
Twitter Archive Eraser - tweet deletion tool

Social amnesia is a collective forgetting by a group of people. The concept is often cited in relation to Russell Jacoby's scholarship from the 1970s. Social amnesia can be a result of 'forcible repression' of memories, ignorance, changing circumstances, or the forgetting that comes from changing interests.^[1]^[2] Protest, folklore, 'local memory', and collective nostalgia are counter forces that combat social amnesia.^[2]

Social Amnesia A Critique Of Contemporary Psychology

Social amnesia is a subject of discussion in psychology and among some political activists. In the U.S., social amnesia has been said to reflect 'the tendency of American penology to ignore history and precedent when responding to the present or informing the future.. discarded ideas are repackaged; meanwhile, the expectations for these practices remain the same.'^[3]

Memoq usb devices driver. Fits of social amnesia after difficult or trying periods can sometimes cover up the past, and fading memories can actually make mythologies transcend by keeping them 'impervious to challenge'.^[4]

Historian Guy Beiner opted to use the term social forgetting and has shown that under scrutiny this is rarely a condition of total collective oblivion but rather a more complex dynamic of tensions between public forgetting and the persistence of private recollections, which can at times resurface and receive recognition and at other times are suppressed and hidden.^[5]

In biology[edit]

Social Amnesia Examples

Another meaning of social amnesia has been studied in biology among mice whose sense of smell is the primary means of social interaction.^[6] It is affected by oxytocin, and mice without the gene to produce that brain protein are said to suffer from 'social amnesia' and an inability to recognize 'familiar' mice.'^[6] The role of oxytocin in the amygdala in facilitating social recognition and bonding as well as how oxytocin receptor antagonists might induce social amnesia has also been investigated.^[7]^[8]

References[edit]

^Michael J. Dear, Allen John Scott Urbanization and urban planning in capitalist society page 555
^ ^a^bDavid Rothenberg, Marta Ulvaeus The new earth reader: the best of Terra Nova page 57, 74
^Thomas G. Blomberg, Karol Lucken American penology: a history of control page 223
^Joe L. Kincheloe, William Pinar Curriculum as social psychoanalysis: the significance of place
^Guy Beiner, Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster (Oxford University Press, 2018).
^ ^a^bMahlon B. Hoagland, Bert Dodson, Judith Hauck Exploring the way life works: the science of biology page 173
^Peter J. Marshall, Nathan A. Fox The development of social engagement: neurobiological perspectivesSeries in affective science Edition illustrated Publisher Oxford University Press US, 2006 ISBN0-19-516871-2, ISBN978-0-19-516871-6, page 198
^Social Amnesia in mice lacking the oxytocin gene. Nature genetics, 25, 284-285 Francis, DD, Champagne, FC & Meaney, MJ (2000)

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