A Networked Self and Birth, Life, Death

ISBN-13: 9781138705890 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 270 str.

Zizi Papacharissi

Opis

We are born, live, and die with technologies. Choices we make about technology do not involve turning technology off, but rather choosing between media and media rituals, and striving for balance in those choices. Divided into three sections, the book first examines how technologies connect, disrupt, or help us reimagine narratives of parenting and nuturing life. The second section, on life and the networked self, examines how technology sustains our ways of thinking and being, considering who we want to be and the distance between the two. Contributors also address the role technology plays in helping us come to terms with death, looking at technologically enhanced memorials, online rituals of mourning, and patterns of grief enabled through technology.

Recenzje

"Now that the ‘networked self’ has come of age, we need to deal with existential questions about online personhood, adulthood, and parenthood. Internet technologies are transforming everyday practices revolving around birth, friendship, family life, memory and death. This sparkling collection edited by Zizi Papacharissi highlights many profound aspects of this transformation. An eye-opener for every academic interested in online affects!" -José van Dijck, Utrecht University, The Netherlands