Death Glitch

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How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond

By Tamara Kneese

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Death Glitch explores how digital platforms transform our experiences of death, revealing the challenges and complexities when technology confronts mortality. Tamara Kneese investigates the impermanence of online memorials, the decay of digital legacies, and the tension between tech companies' control and users' desires to preserve memories. Through internet histories and interviews with diverse stakeholders, the book illuminates the intricate collaboration between people and platforms in caring for digital remains and challenges the limitations of techno-solutionism.
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This thought-provoking work suits readers interested in the intersection of technology, society, and mortality, particularly those engaged with digital culture, internet history, and platform studies.

An accessible yet erudite deep dive into how platforms are remaking experiences of death

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Death Glitch is an accessible yet erudite deep dive into how platforms are remaking experiences of death.

Since the internet’s earliest days, people have died and mourned online. In quiet corners of past iterations of the web, the dead linger. But attempts at preserving the data of the dead are often ill-fated, for websites and devices decay and die, just as people do. Death disrupts technologists’ plans for platforms. It reveals how digital production is always collaborative, undermining the entrepreneurial platform economy and highlighting the flaws of techno-solutionism.

Big Tech has authority not only over people’s lives but over their experiences of death as well. Ordinary users and workers, though, advocate for changes to tech companies’ policies around death. Drawing on internet histories along with interviews with founders of digital afterlife startups, caretakers of illness blogs, and transhumanist tinkerers, technology scholar Tamara Kneese takes readers on a vibrant tour of the ways that platforms and people work together to care for digital remains. What happens when commercial platforms encounter the messiness of mortality?

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Death Glitch has been praised for its compelling case studies and ethnographic insight into technology's failures in addressing death. Gabriel Nicholas of the Washington Post calls it "a compelling collection of case studies about how technology breaks down when faced with the messiness of mortality." John Durham Peters of Yale University highlights its vivid ethnography, noting tech's failure to grasp "the very condition of human flourishing." Wendy Chun applauds its originality and insight in exposing Silicon Valley’s disrupted plans around death.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300248272

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 10 October 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Yale University Press

Illustration: 16 b-w illus.

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 272

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Education & Reference Grief & Loss Non-Fiction Tamara Kneese

About the Author

Tamara Kneese is a visiting scholar at the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society at the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Oakland, CA.