This article examines how digital modes of communication serve to facilitate family relations across three generations. Drawing on written interviews with two family chains, three categories of memory co-production are identified: co-construction, sedimentation and recreation. Applying theories of media generations and mediated memory studies, the analysis explores how these memories are shaped and unfolded. The empirical results demonstrate that all family members use digital modes of communication in the constructions of “micro-memories” of family relations, and that the three generations articulate these memories as vernacular archives of their family’s proximate past. The youngest family members represent a “here-and-now” presentism culture, while the middle and eldest family members represent a more classic “what has taken place” culture. In conclusion, it is argued that studies of mediated memories require additional empirical grounding which is contextualized, critical and mindful of the socio-technical developments and the affordances of the digital modes of communication.

本文探讨了数字通信模式如何促进三代人之间的家庭关系。通过对两个家庭链的书面访谈，可以确定三类记忆的共同生产：共同建设，沉淀和娱乐。应用媒体世代相传的理论和介导的记忆研究，该分析探索了这些记忆是如何形成和展开的。实证结果表明，所有家庭成员在构建家庭关系的“微记忆”时都使用数字通信方式，而三代人将这些记忆清楚地表达为家庭近代的白话档案。最年轻的家庭成员代表一种“从现在到现在”的表现主义文化，而中，最年长的家庭成员代表一种更为经典的“发生了什么”的文化。