Digital Death (eBook, PDF)

Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age
Redaktion: Moreman, Christopher M.; Lewis, A. David

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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. With DeadSocial(TM) one can create messages to be published to social networks after death. Facebook's "If I Die" enables users to create a video or text message for posthumous publication. Twitter _LIVESON accounts will keep tweeting even after the user is gone. There is no doubt that the digital age has radically changed options related to death, dying, grieving, and remembering, allowing people to say goodbye in their own time and their own unique way. Drawing from a range of academic perspectives, this book is the only serious study to focus on the ways in which death, dying, and memorialization appear in and are influenced by digital technology. The work investigates phenomena, devices, and audiences as they affect mortality, remembrances, grieving, posthumous existence, and afterlife experience. It examines the markets to which the providers of such services are responding, and it analyzes the degree to which digital media is changing views and expectations related to death. Ultimately, the contributors seek to answer an even more important question: how digital existences affect both real-world perceptions of life's end and the way in which lives are actually lived.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781440831331
• Artikelnr.: 68183826

Autorenporträt

Christopher M. Moreman, PhD, is associate professor in philosophy at California State University, East Bay, with expertise in comparative religion, death and dying, and religious and paranormal experience. A. David Lewis, PhD, is adjunct assistant professor at several colleges across the greater Boston area and is a steering committee member of the America Academy of Religion's Death, Dying, and Beyond program unit.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction A. David Lewis and Christopher M. Moreman Part I: Death,
Mourning, and Social Media 1 Messaging the Dead: Social Network Sites and
Theologies of Afterlife Erinn Staley 2 Profiles of the Dead: Mourning and
Memorial on Facebook Heidi Ebert 3 Virtual Graveyard: Facebook, Death, and
Existentialist Critique Ari Stillman 4 Tweeting Death, Posting Photos, and
Pinning Memorials: Remembering the Dead in Bits and Pieces Candi K. Cann
Part II: Online Memorialization and Digital Legacies 5 eMemoriam: Digital
Necrologies, Virtual Remembrance, and the Question of Permanence Michael
Arntfield 6 The Restless Dead in the Digital Cemetery Bjorn Nansen, Michael
Arnold, Martin Gibbs, and Tamara Kohn 7 The Social Value of Digital Ghosts
Pam Briggs and Lisa Thomas 8 Mythopoesis, Digital Democracy, and the Legacy
of the Jonestown Website Rebecca Moore Part III: Virtual Worlds beyond
Death 9 Remembering Laura Roslin: Fictional Death and a Real Bereavement
Community Online Erica Hurwitz Andrus 10 Necromedia-Reversed Ontogeny or
Posthuman Evolution? Denisa Kera 11 Infinite Gestation: Death and Progress
in Video Games Stephen Mazzeo and Daniel Schall 12 The Death of Digital
Worlds William Sims Bainbridge Bibliography About the Contributors Index