Digital Afterlife: Death Matters in a Digital Age

ISBN-13: 9780367337919 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 214 str.

Maggi Savin-Baden; Victoria Mason-Robbie

Opis

Advances in data mining and artificial intelligence are now making an active presence after death possible, and the dead remain part of our lives in our digital devices. This book draws together leading experts to present the diverse understandings of digital immortality and examine the impact it has on recipients and on the wider society. 

Spis treści

Acknowledgements. Editors. Contributors. Introduction. Chapter 1 ◾ Perspectives on Digital Afterlife. Chapter 2 ◾ Social Media and Digital Afterlife. Chapter 3 ◾ Posthumous Digital Material: Does It ‘Live On’ in Survivors’ Accounts of Their Dead? Chapter 4 ◾ The Transition from Life to the Digital Afterlife: Thanatechnology and Its Impact on Grief. Chapter 5 ◾ Profit and Loss: The Mortality of the Digital Immortality Platforms. Chapter 6 ◾ The ‘New(ish)’ Property, Informational Bodies, and Postmortality. Chapter 7 ◾ Digital Remains: The Users’ Perspectives. Chapter 8 ◾ Legal Issues in Digital Afterlife. Chapter 9 ◾ Building a Digital Immortal. Chapter 10 ◾ Philosophical Investigations into Digital Afterlife. Chapter 11 ◾ Postdigital Afterlife: A Philosophical Framework. Chapter 12 ◾ Digital Afterlife Matters. GLOSSARY. INDEX.