Digital Existence: Ontology, Ethics and Transcendence in Digital Culture (Routledge Studies in Religion and Digital Culture) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367588285 ISBN 13: 9780367588281

Verlag: Routledge, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

This book advances debates on digital culture and digital religion and is the first volume on our digital existence in the budding field of existential media studies.

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Amanda Lagerkvist is Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden, and was appointed Wallenberg Academy Fellow in 2013. She is head of the research programme "Existential Terrains: Memory and Meaning in Cultures of Connectivity" (http://et.ims.su.se) in the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University, funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation, and Stockholm University (2014-2018). She has worked in the fields of media philosophy and media memory studies, and is now developing existential media studies, by focusing on memories of the dead online, after death communication, online mourning and shared vulnerability, the digital afterlife and the transcendence industry. She is the author of Media and Memory in New Shanghai: Western Performances of Futures Past (2013) and the co-editor of Strange Spaces: Explorations into Mediated Obscurity (2009). She is currently writing a monograph entitled Existential Media.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0367588285
• ISBN 13: 9780367588281
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 302
• Herausgeber: Lagerkvist Amanda
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Deutschland