1st Edition

Digital Afterlife Death Matters in a Digital Age

Edited By Maggi Savin-Baden, Victoria Mason-Robbie Copyright 2020
230 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

230 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

230 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

Despite the range of studies into grief and mourning in relation to the digital, research to date largely focuses on the cultural practices and meanings that are played out in and through digital environments. Digital Afterlife brings together experts from diverse fields who share an interest in Digital Afterlife and the wide-ranging issues that relate to this. The book covers a variety of... Read more

Acknowledgements

Editors

Contributors

Introduction

Maggi Savin-Baden and Victoria Mason-Robbie

Chapter 1 ◾ Perspectives on Digital Afterlife

Maggi Savin-Baden and Victoria Mason-Robbie

Chapter 2 ◾ Social Media and Digital Afterlife

Elaine Kasket

Chapter 3 ◾ Posthumous Digital Material: Does It ‘Live On’ in Survivors’ Accounts of Their Dead?

Mórna O’Connor

Chapter 4 ◾ The Transition from Life to the Digital Afterlife: Thanatechnology and Its Impact on Grief

Carla Sofka

Chapter 5 ◾ Profit and Loss: The Mortality of the Digital Immortality Platforms

Debra Bassett

Chapter 6 ◾ The ‘New(ish)’ Property, Informational Bodies, and Postmortality

Edina Harbinja

Chapter 7 ◾ Digital Remains: The Users’ Perspectives

Tal Morse and Michael Birnhack

Chapter 8 ◾ Legal Issues in Digital Afterlife

Gary F. Rycroft

Chapter 9 ◾ Building a Digital Immortal

David Burden

Chapter 10 ◾ Philosophical Investigations into Digital Afterlife

John Reader

Chapter 11 ◾ Postdigital Afterlife: A Philosophical Framework

Petar Jandrić

Chapter 12 ◾ Digital Afterlife Matters

Victoria Mason-Robbie and Maggi Savin-Baden

GLOSSARY

INDEX

Biography

Maggi Savin-Baden, Victoria Mason-Robbie