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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 have been almost entirely silent on the topic, despite their perennial focus on death as a unique dimension of human existence. Until now. Drawing on ongoing philosophical debates, Digital Souls claims that the digital dead are objects that should be treated with loving regard and that we have a moral duty towards.…
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2 editions- Hardcover · English · 2021Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 224 pages · 9781350139145
- Paperback · English · 2021Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 224 pages · 9781350139152
PhilosophyDeath, social aspectsSocial mediaSociology, Social StudiesDeath, moral and ethical aspectsDeathImmortality
