Digital afterlife : death matters in a digital age
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Digital afterlife : death matters in a digital age
（Chapman & Hall/CRC artificial intelligence and robotics series）
CRC Press, c2020
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"A Chapman & Hall book"
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Description
Aims to be broad in scope yet practical in approach, so that it can serve the needs of several different audiences, including researchers, teachers, developers, and theologians; Covers a wide variety of issues which have been neglected in other research texts; Studies the impact of creating a digital immortal on relatives and friends, the consequences of persistent digital legacies, and ways digital media are currently being used to expand the possibilities of commemorating the dead and managing the grief of those left behind; Analyzes the extent to which digital media are complementing or replacing the well-established formal structures and religious rituals; Explores the legal and ethical impact of creating a digital immortal.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements. Editors. Contributors. Introduction. Chapter 1 Perspectives on Digital Afterlife. Chapter 2 Social Media and Digital Afterlife. Chapter 3 Posthumous Digital Material: Does It 'Live On' in Survivors' Accounts of Their Dead? Chapter 4 The Transition from Life to the Digital Afterlife: Thanatechnology and Its Impact on Grief. Chapter 5 Profit and Loss: The Mortality of the Digital Immortality Platforms. Chapter 6 The 'New(ish)' Property, Informational Bodies, and Postmortality. Chapter 7 Digital Remains: The Users' Perspectives. Chapter 8 Legal Issues in Digital Afterlife. Chapter 9 Building a Digital Immortal. Chapter 10 Philosophical Investigations into Digital Afterlife. Chapter 11 Postdigital Afterlife: A Philosophical Framework. Chapter 12 Digital Afterlife Matters. GLOSSARY. INDEX.
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