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. Explains how new technologies and
online accessibility are changing human attitudes to death and
dying-and impacting the ways in which people live Explores the
afterlife experience as it can play out in a variety of digital
media, including Facebook and other social media, World of Warcraft
and video games, YouTube and other video services, and Internet
memorials Analyzes the myriad ways encounters with death and dying
and the capacity for mourning are mediated by new technologies
Places death and dying in the digital age in historical
perspective, showing how beliefs about and approaches to death and
dying have changed constantly over time
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