Digital souls : a philosophy of online immortality / Patrick Stokes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stokes, Patrick, 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death.

Immortality.

Social media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 196 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, [2021]

Summary:

"Social media is full of dead people. What should we do with all these digital souls? Can we delete them, or do they have a right to persist? Patrick Stokes claims that we have a moral duty towards the digital dead. Modern technology helps them to persist in various ways, but - with such developments as AI-driven chatbots simulating the dead - it also makes them vulnerable to new forms of exploitation and abuse. This provocative book explores a range of questions about the nature of death, identity, grief, and the moral status of digital remains"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Dying Online

2. #TheWorkOfMourning

3. Kicking the Virtual Dust

4. Ghosts in the Machine

5. Deletion as Second Death

6. When the Dead Talk Back

7. ?To be dead is to be a prey for the living?

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781350139176

1350139173

9781350139169

1350139165

OCLC:

1238134110