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The Media End

Lagerkvist, Amanda·2017·Digital Memory Studies
DOI 10.4324/9781315637235-3
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What is the prospect of disconnection – of a media end – in a digital memory culture that one-sidedly celebrates the virtues of non-stop connectivity, limitless perpetuation and endless recording? Is any form of closure whatsoever conceivable when technologies afford practices that allow for unprecedented continuing bonds with the dead online? Meditating existentially on the human givens of endings and closure – and their place or displacement in media theory and culture – poised against the horizons of ‘forever’ as these manifest themselves within our contemporary digital ecology, this chapter attends to the digital inheritance area, and to forms of digital eternity currently in circulation, as well as a few services for ending media life. With a particular focus on agency, as a troubled yet imperative piece of the contemporary digital and existential puzzle, it argues that techno-existential closure seems both repressed and incited somehow by the emergence of the digital afterlife.

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  • The digital afterlife industry became firmly established in the 2010s.

    “The so called ' digital afterlife industry ' (Bassett 2022; Kasket 2019; Lagerkvist 2017; Öhman and Floridi 2018; Sisto 2020; W.H. Wong 2023) became firmly established in the 2010s.”

    From AI and memory (2024) · cites this paper as Lagerkvist 2017

  • Deadbot services are often marketed as offering total memory and the idea of an eternal you.

    “These services are often marketed as offering a kind of total memory and the idea of an eternal you (Lagerkvist 2017).”

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Authors
Lagerkvist, A.
Corresponding author
Lagerkvist, Amanda
ORCID
Lagerkvist, Amanda
Venue
Digital Memory Studies
Publisher
Routledge
Published
2017-09-27
Pages
48-84
DOI
10.4324/9781315637235-3
OpenAlex
W2785127698
Cited by
23
References
0
Citations by year
2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1
FWCI
8.31
Type
book chapter
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Routledge eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Cybernetics and Technology in Society
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Digital Media and Philosophy
Keywords
digital afterlife, digital inheritance, closure, agency, online memorials, digital permanence

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