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Espiridion, M. E. (2019) Remembering the Past through Memory-enabling Spaces: Understanding Nostalgia in Facebook’s “Memories of Old Manila”, Unpublished Undergraduate Thesis, University of the Philippines Diliman College of Mass Communication

This thesis looked into the communication process of memory making by looking into
the insights of the members of the Facebook group Memories of Old Manila. The study aimed to
document how individuals perform nostalgia in order to create a collective memory in the
mentioned online community. Using the concepts in the Memory Acts theory (De Saint-Laurent,
2018) and the factors of Online Identity Expression (Marwick, 2013) of the members to find how
is nostalgia performed. This research utilized an interpretivist research design to look into the
discursive nature of the identity of the members when it comes to sharing nostalgia and to
understand the general collective memory making process. Through interviews and the textual
analyses, the study found factors of online expression in Facebook that help define the memory
making process. The findings also revealed that the creation of memory making and the factors
affecting online identity expression resulted to different manifestations of identity. Collective
memory in Memories of Old Manila is about sharing nostalgia about the Filipino experience. In
conclusion, the nostalgia performed in the Facebook group is constructed differently for each
member of the community but is collectively woven into a memory.
                                                
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