Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age

by A. David Lewis

This fascinating work explores the meaning of death in the digital age, showing readers the new ways digital technology allows humans to approach, prepare for, and handle their ultimate destiny.

With DeadSocial(TM) one can create messages to be published to social networks after death. Facebook's "If I Die" enables users to create a video or text message for posthumous publication. Twitter _LIVESON accounts will keep tweeting even...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1440831327
• ISBN13: 9781440831324
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 7 to 17 years