Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond Kneese Tamara
Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond Kneese Tamara An accessible yet erudite deep dive into how platforms are remaking experiences of deathSince the internet's…
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Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond Kneese Tamara
An accessible yet erudite deep dive into how platforms are remaking experiences of deathSince the internet's earliest days, people have died and mourned online. But attempts at preserving the data of the dead are often ill-fated, for websites and devices decay and die, just as people do. In quiet corners of past iterations of the web, the dead linger.
It reveals how digital production is always collaborative, undermining the entrepreneurial platform economy and highlighting the flaws of techno-solutionism.Big Tech has authority not only over people's lives but over their experiences of death as well. Death disrupts technologists' plans for platforms. Ordinary users and workers, though, advocate for changes to tech companies' policies around death.
Drawing on internet histories along with interviews with founders of digital afterlife startups, caretakers of illness