Keynote: Living Digitally, Death Online Research Symposium 2015.

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

    Description

    Synopsis: We are increasingly living out aspects of our lives digitally. But what happens when we die? In this keynote, I'll explain what I mean by a ‘digital life’, comparing it with physical and social human lifespans. I'll explore the reasons why it is so difficult to completely terminate your digital life, before describing the options for a continuing presence after physical death, both in the memories of others and as a rather more active, even vocal, digital entity. The material is based on a chapter in the forthcoming book, which also features contributions by Will Self and AS Byatt: Wendy Moncur. Forthcoming. Living Digitally. In Memory in the Twenty-first Century: Critical Perspectives from the Sciences and Arts and Humanities, Sebastian Groes (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan.
    Period18 Aug 2015
    Event titleDeath Online Research Symposium 2015
    Event typeConference
    LocationLondon, United KingdomShow on map

    Keywords

    • death
    • memorialisation
    • inheritance
    • bequest
    • Internet

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