A Networked Self and Birth, Life, Death
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A Networked Self and Birth, Life, Death

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A Networked Self and Birth, Life, Death

About this book

We are born, live, and die with technologies. This book is about the role technology plays in sustaining narratives of living, dying, and coming to be. Contributing authors examine how technologies connect, disrupt, or help us reorganize ways of parenting and nurturing life. They further consider how technology sustains our ways of thinking and being, hopefully reconciling the distance between who we are and who we aspire to be. Finally, they address the role technology plays in helping us come to terms with death, looking at technologically enhanced memorials, online rituals of mourning, and patterns of grief enabled through technology. Ultimately, this volume is about using technology to reimagine the art of life.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9781351784115
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Media Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Index

Note: index entries in the form 206n1 refer to page and endnote numbers.
activism 5, 82, 124, 143, 152, 155, 162
acute events 229–30, 231, 233, 236
Adam, V. 51
advertising 24, 37, 39, 40, 45, 214, 215, 218
African Americans 7, 143, 145–50, 155–6
afterlife of software 190–206; challenge of preservation 191–4; consoles and the cloud 198–202; Everything Development Engine 193–4, 196–8, 201–2; overview 8, 190–1; theorizing software reenactment 202–5; universal machines and cuneiform tablets 194–8
Against Forgetting documentary (Tegen het vergeten) 209
agency: black joy as resistance 154; co-creating birth and death 5, 35–7, 39, 41–2, 46, 47; Facebook 114, 214; networked individualism 2; parents’ narratives 5, 50, 56, 64, 65; political socialization 81, 122, 131, 134, 137, 139; self-actualization 3
Agnew, Vanessa 191, 203, 205
AI see artificial intelligence
Alberts, Gerard 206n1
Alexandre-Bisson, Juliette 240, 249
algorithms: algorithmic afterlife 46; co-creating birth and death 35, 43, 45–6; Facebook’s “On This Day” 214, 218, 219; family life in polymedia 91, 92; numbers and lifeworld 13; personal(ized) memories 214, 218, 219; political socialization 80, 81, 82
Ali, Muhammad 224
Allan, Stuart 75
Allen, Amy 250, 251
Allen, Richard 146
All Music Guide 197
Althusser, Louis 226
“always on” connectivity 90, 94, 98, 229
Amazon 81
ambient co-presence 98, 99, 100
ambient news 80
Anderson, Matthew 251
Anything Ghost (podcast) 253–4
Apache program 194...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. I Introduction
  10. 2 Numerical Being and Non-Being: Probing the Ethos of Quantification in Bereavement Online
  11. 3 Co-Creating Birth and Death on Social Media
  12. 4 Imagining the Future through the Lens of the Digital: Parents' Narratives of Generational Change
  13. 5 Storytelling the Self into Citizenship: How Social Media Practices Facilitate Adolescent and Emerging Adult Political Life
  14. 6 Family Life in Polymedia
  15. 7 Every Click You Make, I'll Be Watching You: Facebook Stalking and Neoliberal Information
  16. 8 Formative Events, Networked Spaces, and the Political Socialization of Youth
  17. 9 Defying Death: Black Joy as Resistance Online
  18. 10 Young People and Digital Grief Etiquette
  19. 11 Deconstructing Immortality? Identity Work and the Death of David Bowie in Digital Media
  20. 12 The Afterlife of Software
  21. 13 From Personal to Personalized Memory: Social Media as Mnemotechnology
  22. 14 Social Media Rituals: The Uses of Celebrity Death in Digital Culture
  23. 15 Ghosts in the Machines: How Centuries of Technological Play with Death Has Helped Make Sense of Life
  24. Index