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Автор: Sisto, Davide
Название: Online Afterlives
ISBN: 9780262539395
Издательство: MIT Press
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Социология: смерть и дряхление

Воздействие науки и технологии на общество

Технологии производства: общие вопросы

ISBN-10: 026253939X
Обложка/Формат: Trade Paperback
Страницы: 176
Вес: 0.23 кг.
Дата издания: 01.09.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 201 x 135 x 15
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Основная тема: History/Social Science
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: 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. Modern society usually hides death from sight, as if it were a character flaw and not an ineluctable fact. But on Facebook and elsewhere on the internet, we cant avoid death; digital ghosts--electronic traces of the dead--appear at our click or touch. On the Internet at least, death has once again become a topic for public discourse. 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 speak in the voice of a dead person, and QR codes on headstones--and discusses their philosophical ramifications. Sisto reports on such phenomena as the Tweet Hereafter, a website that collects peoples last tweets; the intimacy of sending a WhatsApp message to someone who has died; and digital cremation, the deactivation of a dead persons account. Because we can mingle with the dead online almost as we mingle with the living, he warns, we may find it difficult to distinguish communication at a distance from communication with the dead.
The digital afterlife has restored the communal dimension of death, rescuing both mourners and the mourned from social isolation. A society willing to engage with death and mortality, Sisto argues, is a more balanced and mature society.

Online Afterlives, Sisto, Davide