All the Ghosts in the Machine - Elaine Kasket

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Résumé :

'Engagingly written, thoroughly researched - there is no better guide to how social media re-shapes our experience of death and loss'

Professor Tony Walter, University of Bath, UK

Seen any ghosts on your smartphone lately?

As citizens of the modern world, we generate vast amounts of digitally stored personal data - and those digital reflections don't simply vanish when we shuffle off this mortal coil. Every online action - each email, website visit and privacy-setting adjustment - affects not just how we're perceived in life, but how we'll be remembered in death. Although online ghosts are now an ordinary phenomenon, their impact on the living is often extraordinary.

All the Ghosts in the Machine sounds a clarion call to everyone who never thought about death in the digital age. Weaving together personal, moving true stories and scientific research, psychologist Elaine Kasket takes you on a fascinating tour through the valley of the shadow of digital death. In the process, she will transform how you think about your life and your legacy, in a time when our technologies are tantalising us with fantasies of immortality.

'Elaine Kasket has written a thought-provoking book that will help digital immigrants and digital natives alike'

Professor Carla Sofka, co-editor of Dying, Death, and Grief in an Online Universe