This is really beautifully written and love this topic. Some years ago I wrote something similar thinking about my dead brother’s Facebook account: https://reallifemag.com/the-great-beyond/
A really fantastic essay. I found it very instructive to approach the subject of death and our digital selves using examples in film.
By coincidence I reviewed a book called Death Glitch by Tamara Kneese which approaches the subject of death from the perspective of tech design (or rather lack of it), memorialisation and the temporality of platforms. Ironically so many digital memorial startups end up folding after a few years.
This is really beautifully written and love this topic. Some years ago I wrote something similar thinking about my dead brother’s Facebook account: https://reallifemag.com/the-great-beyond/
A really fantastic essay. I found it very instructive to approach the subject of death and our digital selves using examples in film.
By coincidence I reviewed a book called Death Glitch by Tamara Kneese which approaches the subject of death from the perspective of tech design (or rather lack of it), memorialisation and the temporality of platforms. Ironically so many digital memorial startups end up folding after a few years.
https://open.substack.com/pub/uxmichaelco/p/first-2-death-glitch?r=2fkik0&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post