All the Ghosts in the Machine: The Digital Afterlife of your Personal Data - Couverture souple

Kasket, Elaine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 147214189X ISBN 13 : 9781472141897

Editeur : Robinson, 2019

Synopsis

A fascinating and thought-provoking journey into the problematic world of our digital afterlife.

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À propos de l'auteur

Elaine Kasket, Psy.D., is a Counselling Psychologist, speaker and writer who has studied the juxtaposition of death and the digital since 2006. She has contributed to multiple stories on this topic in TV, radio, print and online media, to include pieces for the BBC, Radio 4, Channel 4 News, the Canadian Broadcasting Company, and Psychology Today. All the Ghosts in the Machine is her first book for general audiences, following a decade of more academic writing on the subject. Originally from the U.S., Elaine now lives with her family in London, where she produces the Mortified stage show, acts as the Bereavement Lead for the Digital Legacy Association, and maintains a busy psychotherapy practice.

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'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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Robinson
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 147214189X
• ISBN 13: 9781472141897
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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