Description: Creation and Inheritance of Afterlives : You Only Live Twice, Hardcover by Bassett, Debra J., ISBN 3030916839, ISBN-13 9783030916831, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
This book explores how social networking platforms such as Fac, Twitter, and WhatsApp 'accidentally’ enable and nurture the creation of afterlives, and, importantly, the effect this 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, creators, and inheritors.
For the bereaved, loss of data, lack of control, or obsolescence can lead to a second loss, and this book introduces the theory of 'the fear of second loss’. Bassett argues that afterlives challenge and disrupt existing grief theories, suggesting how these theories might be expanded to accommodate inheritance.
This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to sociologists, cyber psychologists, philosophers, death scholars, and grief counsellors. But Bassett’s book can also be seen as a canary in the coal mine for the 'intentional’ 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 Bassett’s conception of a Do Not Reanimate (DDNR) order and a voluntary code of conduct could provide a useful addition to the DAI.
Even in the societies of the West, we are far from immortal, but perhaps the question we really need to ask is: who wants to live forever?
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Book Title: Creation and Inheritance of Digital Afterlives : You only Live Twice
Number of Pages: Xxi, 192 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
Topic: Philosophy & Social Aspects, Sociology / General, General, Library & Information Science / General
Publication Year: 2021
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Technology & Engineering, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science, Science
Item Weight: 14.5 Oz
Item Length: 8.3 in
Author: Debra J. Bassett
Book Series: Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and Its Successors Ser.
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Hardcover
