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All the ghosts in the machine : illusions of immortality in the digital age / Elaine Kasket.

By: Kasket, Elaine [author.]Publisher: London : Robinson, 2019Description: xxiii, 280 pages : black and white illustrationsContent type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781472141897Subject(s): Death -- Social aspects | Digital media -- Social aspects | Social media and society | ImmortalityDDC classification: 306.9
Contents:
Introduction : remembering Elizabeth -- The new elysium -- The anatomy of online grief -- Terms and conditions -- Behind the portcullis -- Stewarding the online dead -- The uncanny valley -- The voice of the dead -- Remembering Zoe -- A decalogue for your digital dust.
Summary: "As citizens of the modern world, we generate vast amounts of digitally stored personal data - and those digital reflections don't simply vanish when we shuffle off this mortal coil. Every online action - each email, website visit and privacy-setting adjustment - affects not just how we're perceived in life, but how we'll be rememberd in death. Although online ghosts are now an ordinary phenomenon, their impact on the living is often extraordinary. All the Ghosts in the Machine sounds a clarion call to everyone who never thought about death in the digital age. Weaving together personal, moving true stories and scientific research, psychologist Elaine Kasket takes you on a fascinating tour through the valley of the shadow of digital death. In the process, she will transform how you think about your life and your legacy, in a time when our technologies are tantalising us with fantasies of immortality."-- Taken from back cover.
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Book House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey 306.9 KAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 018927

Introduction : remembering Elizabeth -- The new elysium -- The anatomy of online grief -- Terms and conditions -- Behind the portcullis -- Stewarding the online dead -- The uncanny valley -- The voice of the dead -- Remembering Zoe -- A decalogue for your digital dust.

"As citizens of the modern world, we generate vast amounts of digitally stored personal data - and those digital reflections don't simply vanish when we shuffle off this mortal coil. Every online action - each email, website visit and privacy-setting adjustment - affects not just how we're perceived in life, but how we'll be rememberd in death. Although online ghosts are now an ordinary phenomenon, their impact on the living is often extraordinary. All the Ghosts in the Machine sounds a clarion call to everyone who never thought about death in the digital age. Weaving together personal, moving true stories and scientific research, psychologist Elaine Kasket takes you on a fascinating tour through the valley of the shadow of digital death. In the process, she will transform how you think about your life and your legacy, in a time when our technologies are tantalising us with fantasies of immortality."-- Taken from back cover.

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