From blogs written by terminally ill authors to online notes left by those considering suicide, digital technologies have become a means for the dead and the dying to cope with the anxiety of death. Services like artificial intelligence chatbots, mind-uploading, and postmortem blog posts offer individuals the ability to cultivate their legacies in a bid for digital immortality. The Digital Departed explores the posthumous internet world from the perspective of both the living and the dead. Based on hundreds of blog posts, suicide notes, Twitter hashtags, and videos, The Digital Departed examines the ways we die online and the digital texts we leave behind. Combining these data with interviews, surveys, analysis of news coverage, and a historical overview of the relationship between death and communication technology, Timothy Recuber explains what it means to live and die on the internet today. In this thought-provoking and uniquely troubling work, Recuber shows that although we will eventually pass away, our digital souls will live on, online, in a kind of purgatory of their own.
- ISBN:
- 9781479814961
- 9781479814961
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Category:
- Sociology
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
-
12-09-2023
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- New York University Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Dimensions (mm):
- 227x152x20mm
- Weight:
- 0.5kg
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