Der Tod geht online

The Facebook profile of a deceased friend becomes a virtual grave and memorial site for relatives. Thanks to chatbots, avatars and holograms, communication with loved ones continues even after death. And the storage capacities of today's servers and data storage media enable every living person to create a digital copy of themselves that can 'represent' them after their death. Is the digital age realising the age-old dream of immortality? Or do the technological possibilities of the present throw us back on our finiteness more than ever? Using current examples from cinema, television, pop culture and the internet, this book explores the question of how people's relationship to mortality is changing in the digital age.