| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 265 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Part I: Death, Mourning, and Social Media; 1 Messaging the Dead: Social Network Sites and Theologies of Afterlife; 2 Profiles of the Dead: Mourning and Memorial on Facebook; 3 Virtual Graveyard: Facebook, Death, and Existentialist Critique; 4 Tweeting Death, Posting Photos, and Pinning Memorials: Remembering the Dead in Bits and Pieces; Part II: Online Memorialization and Digital Legacies; 5 eMemoriam: Digital Necrologies, Virtual Remembrance, and the Question of Permanence; 6 The Restless Dead in the Digital Cemetery |
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7 The Social Value of Digital Ghosts8 Mythopoesis, Digital Democracy, and the Legacy of the Jonestown Website; Part III: Virtual Worlds beyond Death; 9 Remembering Laura Roslin: Fictional Death and a Real Bereavement Community Online; 10 Necromedia-Reversed Ontogeny or Posthuman Evolution?; 11 Infinite Gestation: Death and Progress in Video Games; 12 The Death of Digital Worlds; Bibliography; About the Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
"This fascinating work explores the meaning of death in the digital age, showing readers the new ways digital technology allows humans to approach, prepare for, and handle their ultimate destiny"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Death -- Social aspects
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Information technology -- Social aspects
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Internet -- Social aspects.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Future Studies.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Death -- Social aspects
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Information technology -- Social aspects
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Internet -- Social aspects
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Social Media
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Internet
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Tod
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Sterben
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Sozialer Wandel
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Religion: general.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Moreman, Christopher M., 1974- editor.
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Lewis, A. David, 1977- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781440831331 |
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1440831335 |
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9798216074502 |
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