"The book covers a variety of matters that have been neglected in other research texts, for example: the legal, ethical, and philosophical conundrums of Digital Afterlife; the ways digital media are currently being used to expand the possibilities of commemorating the dead and managing the grief of those left behind. Our lives are shaped by and shape the creation of our Digital Afterlife as the digital has become a taken for granted aspect of human experience. This book will be of interest to undergraduates from computing, theology, business studies, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and education from all types of institutions. Secondary audiences include researchers and postgraduate researchers with an interest in the digital. At a practical level, the cost of data storage and changing data storage systems mitigate the likelihood of our digital presence existing in perpetuity. Whether we create accidental or intentional digital memories, this has psychological consequences for ourselves and for society. Essentially, the foreverness of forever is in question." (Publisher description)
Introduction, 1
1 Perspectives on digital afterlife / Maggi Savin-Baden and Victoria Mason-Robbie, 11
2 Social media and digital afterlife / Elaine Kasket, 27
3 Posthumous digital material: does it 'live on' in survivors' accounts of their dead? / Mórna O'Connor, 39
4 The impact of digital afterlife on grief and mourning / Carla Sofka, 57
5 Digital afterlife to digital endurance / Debra Bassett, 75
6 Law, policy and digital afterlife / Edina Harbinja, 89
7 Digital remains: users perspectives / Tal Morse and Michael Birnhack, 107
8 Legal issues in digital afterlife / Gary Rycroft, 127
9 Building a digital immortal / David Burden, 143
10 Philosophical investigations of digital afterlife / John Reader, 161
11 Postdigital afterlife / Petar Jandric, 173
12 Digital afterlife matters / Victoria Mason-Robbie and Maggi Savin-Baden, 189