A Networked Self and Birth, Life, Death

✍ Scribed by Zizi Papacharissi

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 287
• Series: A Networked Self
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

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