The Digital Departed

A sociologist examines the ways we die online, and the digital texts we leave behind-including blogs of the terminally ill, suicide notes, post-mortem messages, and hashtags about police brutality. The book argues that the Internet has reenchanted our notions of selfhood, but in ways that blind us to the inequalities underpinning our digital lives--

• • Author: Timothy Recuber
• • Publisher: Nyu Press
• • Publication Date: Sep 12, 2023
• • Number of Pages: 288 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1479814962
• • ISBN-13: 9781479814961