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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bassett, Debra J

Titel

Introduction: Contextualising Digital Afterlives

Ist Teil von

• The Creation and Inheritance of Digital Afterlives, 2021, p.1-25

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We are all going to die, but in the words of Freddie Mercury ‘Who Wants to Live Forever?’ We live in a digital era, where social media is a part of the everyday lives of many. Social media platforms were designed for the living; however, they are being used to nurture ongoing relationships with the dead and are increasingly being used to discuss death, dying and grieving. In this digitised world, technology exists which enables us to create avatars allowing us to ‘live forever’ and advise future generations as reanimated digital zombies. The convergence of death-related issues and technology has become a growing and important area of study across many disciplines, including Sociology; Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); Science, Technology and Society (STS); Cyberpsychology; Death Studies; and Psychology. In our digital society, ubiquitous smart technology ensures the dead permeate into the everyday lives of the living; as sometimes they wait patiently in a state of suspension for the swipe of a finger or the click of a mouse to conjure them back into existence. Adopting qualitative methods and a constructivist grounded theory methodology, this study explores the nature and impact of the creation and inheritance of digital afterlives.