Online Afterlives: Immortality, Memory, and Grief in Digital Culture Sisto Davide
Online Afterlives: Immortality, Memory, and Grief in Digital Culture Sisto Davide How digital technology--from Facebook tributes to QR codes on headstones--is changing our relationship to…
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Online Afterlives: Immortality, Memory, and Grief in Digital Culture Sisto Davide
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. But on Facebook and elsewhere on the internet, we can't avoid death; digital ghosts--electronic traces of the dead--appear at our click or touch. Modern society usually hides death from sight, as if it were a character flaw and not an ineluctable fact.
In Online Afterlives, Davide Sisto considers how digital technology is changing our relationship to death.Sisto describes the various modes of digital survival after biological death--including Facebook tributes, chatbots programmed to On the Internet at least, death has once again become a topic for public discourse.
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