A networked self and birth, life, death / edited by Zizi Papacharissi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Papacharissi, Zizi, editor.

Series:

Networked self (Series)

A networked self

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life change events.

Internet--Social aspects.

Internet.

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology.

Physical Description:

xv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Contents:

Introduction / Zizi Papacharissi

Numerical being and non-being : probing the ethos of quantification in bereavement online / Amanda Lagerkvist

Co-creating birth and death on social media / Tama Leaver

Imagining the future through the lens of the digital : parents' narratives of generational change / Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross

Storytelling the self into citizenship : how social media practices facilitate adolescent and emerging adult political life / Lynn Schofield Clark and Regina Marchi

Family life in polymedia / Mirca Madianou

Every click you make, I'll be watching you : Facebook stalking and neoliberal information / Ilana Gershon

Formative events, networked spaces, and the political socialization of youth / Neta Kligler-Vilenchik and Ioana Literat

Defying death : black joy as resistance online / Catherine Steele and Jessica Lu

Young people and digital grief etiquette / Crystal Abidin

Deconstructing immortality? : identity work and the death of David Bowie in digital media / Johanna Sumiala

The afterlife of software / Michael Stevenson and Robert W. Gehl

From personal to personalized memory : social media as mnemotechnology / Robert Prey and Rik Smit

Social media rituals : the uses of celebrity death in digital culture / Jean Burgess, Peta Mitchell and Felix Victor Münch

Ghosts in the machines : how centuries of technological play with death has helped make sense of life / Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138705883

1138705888

9781138705890

1138705896

OCLC:

1019843922

Publisher Number:

40028510958