Digital Death : Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age /: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Christopher M. Moreman, A. David Lewis.
• Editors: Moreman, Christopher M; Lewis, A. David
• Contents: IntroductionA. David Lewis and Christopher M. MoremanPart I: Death, Mourning, and Social Media1 Messaging the Dead: Social Network Sites and Theologies of AfterlifeErinn Staley2 Profiles of the Dead: Mourning and Memorial on FacebookHeidi Ebert3 Virtual Graveyard: Facebook, Death, and Existentialist CritiqueAri Stillman4 Tweeting Death, Posting Photos, and Pinning Memorials: Remembering the Dead in Bits and PiecesCandi K. CannPart II: Online Memorialization and Digital Legacies5 eMemoriam: Digital Necrologies, Virtual Remembrance, and the Question of PermanenceMichael Arntfield6 The Restless Dead in the Digital CemeteryBjorn Nansen, Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, and Tamara Kohn7 The Social Value of Digital GhostsPam Briggs and Lisa Thomas8 Mythopoesis, Digital Democracy, and the Legacy of the Jonestown WebsiteRebecca MoorePart III: Virtual Worlds beyond Death9 Remembering Laura Roslin: Fictional Death and a Real Bereavement Community OnlineErica Hurwitz Andrus10 Necromedia—Reversed Ontogeny or Posthuman Evolution?Denisa Kera11 Infinite Gestation: Death and Progress in Video GamesStephen Mazzeo and Daniel Schall12 The Death of Digital WorldsWilliam Sims BainbridgeBibliographyAbout the ContributorsIndex.
• Publisher Details: New York : Praeger
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: Social Science -- Death & Dying; Social Science -- Future Studies; Social Science -- Sociology of Religion; Religion: general
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9798216074502
• Related ISBNs: 9781440831324
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