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A fascinating exploration of the social meaning of digital death
From blogs written by terminally ill authors to online notes left
by those considering suicide, technology has become a medium for
the dead and the dying to cope with the anxiety of death. Services
like artificial intelligence chatbots, mind-uploading, and
postmortem blog posts offer individuals the ability to cultivate
their legacies in a bid for digital immortality. The Digital
Departed explores the posthumous internet world from the
perspective of both the living and the dead. Timothy Recuber traces
how communication beyond death evolved over time. Historically, the
methods of mourning have been characterized by unequal access to
power and privilege. However, the internet offers more agency to
the dead, allowing users accessibility and creativity in curating
how they want to be remembered. Based on hundreds of blog posts,
suicide notes, Twitter hashtags, and videos, Recuber examines the
ways we die online, and the digital texts we leave behind.
Combining these data with interviews, surveys, analysis of news
coverage, and a historical overview of the relationship between
death and communication technology going back to pre-history, The
Digital Departed explains what it means to live and die on the
internet today. In this thought-provoking and uniquely troubling
work, Recuber shows that although we might pass away, our digital
souls live on, online, in a kind of purgatory of their own.
A fascinating exploration of the social meaning of digital death
From blogs written by terminally ill authors to online notes left
by those considering suicide, technology has become a medium for
the dead and the dying to cope with the anxiety of death. Services
like artificial intelligence chatbots, mind-uploading, and
postmortem blog posts offer individuals the ability to cultivate
their legacies in a bid for digital immortality. The Digital
Departed explores the posthumous internet world from the
perspective of both the living and the dead. Timothy Recuber traces
how communication beyond death evolved over time. Historically, the
methods of mourning have been characterized by unequal access to
power and privilege. However, the internet offers more agency to
the dead, allowing users accessibility and creativity in curating
how they want to be remembered. Based on hundreds of blog posts,
suicide notes, Twitter hashtags, and videos, Recuber examines the
ways we die online, and the digital texts we leave behind.
Combining these data with interviews, surveys, analysis of news
coverage, and a historical overview of the relationship between
death and communication technology going back to pre-history, The
Digital Departed explains what it means to live and die on the
internet today. In this thought-provoking and uniquely troubling
work, Recuber shows that although we might pass away, our digital
souls live on, online, in a kind of purgatory of their own.
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