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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Carl ÖhmanPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.367kg ISBN: 9780226828220ISBN 10: 0226828220 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 22 May 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Collective Matter The New Natufians What Do We Do with the Digital Dead? Everyone’s Concern Chapter 1: From Bones to Bytes Beginnings The Deep Time of the Dead The Portable Dead The Port from Which We Depart Where Are We Now? Chapter 2: How to Think about Digital Remains What Are Digital Remains? Ghost Cars and Prayer Bots The Informational Corpse Can the Dead Be Harmed? The Digital Encyclopedia of the Dead Brutus’s Closet Not So Valuable After All? Chapter 3: The Rise of the Digital Afterlife Industry Ash & Martha The Digital Afterlife Industry Critiquing the Industry Online Museums Chapter 4: Who Owns the (Digital) Past? Grave Dangers Who Is Worth Preserving? What If Facebook Goes Bust? Orwell’s Warning Decentralizing Control Chapter 5: Living in the Post-Mortal Condition In the Shoes of Max Brod The Meaning of “Post-Mortal” and “Condition” Archeopolitan Duties What Is to Be Done? Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography IndexReviews“This short and accessible book is not to be missed. Öhman draws on his groundbreaking research to explore a pressing issue facing any digital society: the rapid accumulation and management of data belonging to the dead. The Afterlife of Data is a fascinating, provocative, and theoretically rich exploration of the ethics and politics of our digital remains. It will be of personal interest to any mortal with a digital presence.” * Luciano Floridi, author of The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence * “What happens to the data of the deceased was first regarded as a morbid curiosity, then as a niche concern for those with particularly hefty digital footprints. With deft reasoning and great eloquence, Öhman exposes the true scope and significance of the digital dead, and how fundamentally they are intertwined with our collective present and future. In finely tuned, incisive prose that cuts straight to the bone, he effortlessly brings readers into deeper understandings of novel territories and urges us toward what ultimately feels like an obvious conclusion: the digital dead are our responsibility, for without them, we lose ourselves.” * Elaine Kasket, author of All the Ghosts in the Machine * “The online presence of the dead may seem like a somewhat marginal, if creepy, quirk of life in the internet era. But as Öhman shows in this clear-eyed and wide-ranging book, the digital dead sit at the intersection of fundamental historical, economic, and cultural forces. Situating hypercontemporary phenomena within a human narrative stretching all the way back to prehistory, he guides us through urgent problems of the ownership, exploitation, preservation, and destruction of the dead. The Afterlife of Data makes it inescapably clear that, as the first citizens of a new global archive, we owe it to both those who have died and those yet to be born to take control of our digital destiny.” * Patrick Stokes, author of Digital Souls * Author InformationCarl Öhman is assistant professor of political science at Uppsala University, Sweden. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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