Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (275 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9781479814985
Inhalt:
"A sociologist examines the ways we die online, and the digital texts we leave behind-including blogs of the terminally ill, suicide notes, post-mortem messages, and hashtags about police brutality. The book argues that the Internet has reenchanted our notions of selfhood, but in ways that blind us to the inequalities underpinning our digital lives"--
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: From Digital Self to Digital Soul -- 1. News Coverage of Digital Death and the Birth of the Digital Soul -- 2. Absent Presence, Death, and the History of Communication Technologies -- 3. Suffering, the Self, and Narrative Freedom in Blogs of the Terminally Ill -- 4. Self-Destruction as Self-Commemoration in Digital Suicide Notes -- 5. Race, Racism, and Mnemonic Freedom in the Digital Afterlife -- 6. The Reenchantment of Technology and the Quest for Virtual Immortality
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Conclusion: COVID-19, Collective Memory, and the Limits of Digital Transcendence -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781479814947
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781479814961
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Recuber, Timothy, 1978 - The digital departed New York : New York University Press, 2023 ISBN 9781479814947
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781479814961
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Soziologie
Schlagwort(e):
Social Media
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Kommunikation
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Toter
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Social Media
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