ISBN:
9781440831331
,
9781322175850
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (VI, 265 S.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age
DDC:
306.9
Keywords:
Death -- Social aspects
;
Information technology -- Social aspects
;
Internet -- Social aspects
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This fascinating work explores the meaning of death in the digital age, showing readers the new ways digital technology allows humans to approach, prepare for, and handle their ultimate destiny
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Part I: Death, Mourning, and Social Media; 1 Messaging the Dead: Social Network Sites and Theologies of Afterlife; 2 Profiles of the Dead: Mourning and Memorial on Facebook; 3 Virtual Graveyard: Facebook, Death, and Existentialist Critique; 4 Tweeting Death, Posting Photos, and Pinning Memorials: Remembering the Dead in Bits and Pieces; Part II: Online Memorialization and Digital Legacies; 5 eMemoriam: Digital Necrologies, Virtual Remembrance, and the Question of Permanence; 6 The Restless Dead in the Digital Cemetery
Description / Table of Contents:
7 The Social Value of Digital Ghosts8 Mythopoesis, Digital Democracy, and the Legacy of the Jonestown Website; Part III: Virtual Worlds beyond Death; 9 Remembering Laura Roslin: Fictional Death and a Real Bereavement Community Online; 10 Necromedia-Reversed Ontogeny or Posthuman Evolution?; 11 Infinite Gestation: Death and Progress in Video Games; 12 The Death of Digital Worlds; Bibliography; About the Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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