Digital Afterlife

Death Matters in a Digital Age
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-33716-2
Verlag: Chapman and Hall/CRC

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 357 g

Reihe: Chapman & Hall/CRC Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Series

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 matters that have been neglected in other research texts, for example:

- The legal, ethical, and philosophical conundrums of Digital Afterlife

- The ways digital media are currently being used to expand the possibilities of commemorating the dead and managing the grief of those left behind

Our lives are shaped by and shape the creation of our Digital Afterlife as the digital has become a taken for granted aspect of human experience. This book will be of interest to undergraduates from computing, theology, business studies, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and education from all types of institutions. Secondary audiences include researchers and postgraduate researchers with an interest in the digital.

At a practical level, the cost of data storage and changing data storage systems mitigate the likelihood of our digital presence existing in perpetuity. Whether we create accidental or intentional digital memories, this has psychological consequences for ourselves and for society. Essentially, the foreverness of forever is in question.

Maggi Savin-Baden is Professor of Higher Education Research at the University of Worcester. She has a strong publication record of over 50 research publications and 17 books.

Victoria Mason-Robbie is a Chartered Psychologist and an experienced lecturer having worked in the Higher Education sector for over 15 years. Her current research focuses on evaluating web-based avatars, pedagogical agents, and virtual humans.

Zielgruppe

General and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Savin-Baden, Maggi

Mason-Robbie, Victoria

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Theoretische Informatik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Spiele-Programmierung, Rendering, Animation
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Virtuelle Realität, Erweiterte Realität
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Internet, E-Mail, Social Media
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Software Engineering

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Perspectives on Digital immortality. Digital Immortality to Digital Endurance. Legal issues in Digital immortality. Law, Policy and Digital immortality. Digital immortality and the ethical implications of post-mortem privacy. Philosophical Investigations of Digital Immortality. Building a Digital immortal. The impact of digital immortality on grief and mourning. Loss, Grief, Wisdom and Digital Immortality. Social media and digital immortality. Digital Remains: the users’ perspectives. From mundane digital leavings to durable memories. Postdigital immortality

Über Autor(innen)

Maggi Savin-Baden, Victoria Mason-Robbie