The nostalgic memory across Internet and life stories: Generational confrontations of the histories of neighborhood

Abstract

Neigborhoods, as spaces loaded with identity signs, are one of the creative areas of the personal memories. The neighborhood Ciudad de los Ángeles, in Madrid (Spain), is analyzed as generator of personal experiences under the hypothesis of which the obtained memories will be of nostalgic, not traumatic type. Through a generational confrontation and a methodological separation between the oral autobiographical testimonies of the individual life stories and the publications of the users in the virtual community, it is tried to conclude with that the representation of the memory of different generations in the social network creates, unlike the life stories, a collective memory, instead of individual one.