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The digital departed : how we face death, commemorate life, and chase virtual immortality / Timothy Recuber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Recuber, Timothy, 1978- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death--Social aspects.
- Death.
- Internet--Social aspects.
- Internet.
- Immortality--Social aspects.
- Immortality.
- Physical Description:
- 275 pages: illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "A sociologist examines the ways we die online, and the digital texts we leave behind-including blogs of the terminally ill, suicide notes, post-mortem messages, and hashtags about police brutality. The book argues that the Internet has reenchanted our notions of selfhood, but in ways that blind us to the inequalities underpinning our digital lives"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : from digital self to digital soul
- News coverage of digital death and the birth of the digital soul
- Absent presence, death, and the history of communication technologies
- Suffering, the self, and narrative freedom in blogs of the terminally ill
- Self-destruction as self-commemoration in digital suicide notes
- Race, racism, and mnemonic freedom in the digital afterlife
- The reenchantment of technology and the quest for virtual immortality
- Conclusion : COVID-19. collective memory, and the limits of digital transcendence
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781479814947
- 1479814946
- 9781479814961
- 1479814962
- OCLC:
- 1365063070
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