Author : Timothy Recuber
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479814946
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Digital Departed by : Timothy Recuber
Download or read book The Digital Departed written by Timothy Recuber and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--