Online Afterlives: Immortality, Memory, and Grief in Digital Culture by Davide S

Description: Online Afterlives by Davide Sisto "Original Italian edition: Ã2018 Bollati Boringhiere editore, Torino"--Title page verso. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description How digital technology--from Facebook tributes to QR codes on headstones--is changing our relationship to death.Facebook is the biggest cemetery in the world, with countless acres of cyberspace occupied by snapshots, videos, thoughts, and memories of people who have shared their last status updates. Modern society usually hides death from sight, as if it were a character flaw and not an ineluctable fact. But on Facebook and elsewhere on the internet, we cant avoid death; digital ghosts--electronic traces of the dead--appear at our click or touch. On the Internet at least, death has once again become a topic for public discourse. In Online Afterlives, Davide Sisto considers how digital technology is changing our relationship to death. Author Biography Davide Sisto, a philosopher and authority on thanatechnology, is a Researcher in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Turin. Table of Contents Introduction Digital Immortality Death and Social Networks Digital inheritance and hi-tech funeral rites Afterword Acknowledgements Notes Index Review "Online Afterlives offers a vivid philosophical meditation on the ways that digital media are changing peoples relationship to mortality. Combining profound theoretical insights with examples from popular culture, Sisto eloquently shows how digital ghosts make it harder to deny death itself." – Tamara Kneese, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of San Francisco "Sisto takes the reader on a whirlwind journey through philosophical concepts, fictions, legal cases and digital data service providers that all combine to create the contemporary fascination with death, legacy, and immortality! A must-read for the curious mind." – Stacey Pitsillides, Vice-Chancellors Senior Research Fellow, School of Design, Northumbria University"…an eye-opening study of an underexamined aspect of the internet age." — Publishers Weekly Long Description How digital technology--from Facebook tributes to QR codes on headstones--is changing our relationship to death. Facebook is the biggest cemetery in the world, with countless acres of cyberspace occupied by snapshots, videos, thoughts, and memories of people who have shared their last status updates. Modern society usually hides death from sight, as if it were a character flaw and not an ineluctable fact. But on Facebook and elsewhere on the internet, we cant avoid death; digital ghosts--electronic traces of the dead--appear at our click or touch. On the Internet at least, death has once again become a topic for public discourse. In Online Afterlives, Davide Sisto considers how digital technology is changing our relationship to death. Review Quote " Online Afterlives offers a vivid philosophical meditation on the ways that digital media are changing peoples relationship to mortality. Combining profound theoretical insights with examples from popular culture, Sisto eloquently shows how digital ghosts make it harder to deny death itself." - Tamara Kneese, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of San Francisco "Sisto takes the reader on a whirlwind journey through philosophical concepts, fictions, legal cases and digital data service providers that all combine to create the contemporary fascination with death, legacy, and immortality! A must-read for the curious mind." - Stacey Pitsillides, Vice-Chancellors Senior Research Fellow, School of Design, Northumbria University Details ISBN026253939X Author Davide Sisto Short Title Online Afterlives Language English Year 2020 ISBN-10 026253939X ISBN-13 9780262539395 Format Paperback Subtitle Immortality, Memory, and Grief in Digital Culture Pages 216 Publication Date 2020-09-01 UK Release Date 2020-09-01 Imprint MIT Press Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2020-09-01 NZ Release Date 2020-09-01 US Release Date 2020-09-01 Publisher MIT Press Ltd DEWEY 306.9 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:130338449;

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