The creation and inheritance of digital afterlives : you only live twice / Debra J. Bassett.

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The creation and inheritance of digital afterlives : you only live twice / Debra J. Bassett.

9783030916848 (electronic bk.)
3030916847 (electronic bk.)
9783030916831
3030916839

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

English

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white).

10.1007/978-3-030-91684-8 doi

HM742

302.231

This book explores how social networking platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp accidentally enable and nurture the creation of digital afterlives, and, importantly, the effect this digital inheritance has on the bereaved. Debra J. Bassett offers a holistic exploration of this phenomenon and presents qualitative data from three groups of participants: service providers, digital creators, and digital inheritors. This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to sociologists, cyber psychologists, philosophers, death scholars, and grief counsellors. But Bassetts book can also be seen as a canary in the coal mine for the intentional Digital Afterlife Industry (DAI) and their race to monetise the dead. This book provides an understanding of the profound effects uncontrollable timed posthumous messages and the creation of thanabots could have on the bereaved, and Bassetts conception of a Digital Do Not Reanimate (DDNR) order and a voluntary code of conduct could provide a useful addition to the DAI.

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