| Description |
1 online resource |
| Summary |
"An extended essay exploring how modern digital culture-especially social media-has changed our understanding and experience of death, memory and grieving"-- Provided by publisher |
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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 can't 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 |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed June 22, 2020) |
| Subject |
Death -- Social aspects
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Online social networks -- Social aspects
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Internet -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McClellan-Broussard, Bonnie, translator
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Recorded Books, Inc
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| ISBN |
9780262360487 |
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0262360489 |
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