Stokes, Patrick

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Social media is full of dead people. Nobody knows precisely how many Facebook profiles belong to dead users but in 2012 the figure was estimated at 30 million. What do we do with all these digital souls? Can we simply delete them, or do they have a right to persist? Philosophers…

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Dying online -- 2 Online identity -- 3 Presence -- 4 Electric corpses -- 5 Second death -- 6 When the dead speak -- 7 Prey to the living -- Coda: Mind uploads? -- Notes -- Index.

Introduction 1. -- Dying Online 2. -- #TheWorkOfMourning 3. -- Kicking the Virtual Dust 4. -- Ghosts in the Machine 5. -- Deletion as Second Death 6. -- When the Dead Talk Back 7. -- ?To be dead is to be a prey for the living? Index. "Social media is full of dead people. What s…

"Social media is full of dead people. What should we do with all these digital souls? Can we delete them, or do they have a right to persist? Patrick Stokes claims that we have a moral duty towards the digital dead. Modern technology helps them to persist in various ways, but - …

"Social media is full of dead people. What should we do with all these digital souls? Can we delete them, or do they have a right to persist? Patrick Stokes claims that we have a moral duty towards the digital dead. Modern technology helps them to persist in various ways, but - …