{"title":"Ghosts in the Machines","authors":"Whitney Phillips, R. Milner","doi":"10.4324/9781315202129-15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315202129-15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":315618,"journal":{"name":"A Networked Self and Birth, Life, Death","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132155795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Numerical Being and Non-Being","authors":"Amanda Lagerkvist","doi":"10.4324/9781315202129-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315202129-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":315618,"journal":{"name":"A Networked Self and Birth, Life, Death","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125179554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Afterlife of Software","authors":"M. Stevenson, R. Gehl","doi":"10.4324/9781315202129-12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315202129-12","url":null,"abstract":"Death on the internet is not limited to human death. The business model of planned obsolescence, the technical work of preserving old websites, systems, and applications, as well as a cultural emphasis on the new and immediate all combine to make the internet a place where many software technologies have gone to die. Networked modes of living engender networked modes of loss, and a key question is how our connection to the past is reconfigured when software dies. In terms of digital preservation strategies, emulation may also be distinguished from migration, or periodically moving data and software to new environments, “rewriting” them as required. Software does not end with source code, nor with electronic pulses producing material changes in underlying hardware and storage media. If bottom-up, continuous preservation is the way forward, then software’s afterlife will depend not just on the work of a few heritage institutions.","PeriodicalId":315618,"journal":{"name":"A Networked Self and Birth, Life, Death","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121127901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Formative Events, Networked Spaces, and the Political Socialization of Youth","authors":"Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Ioana Literat","doi":"10.4324/9781315202129-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315202129-8","url":null,"abstract":"Much academic and public attention is devoted to the question of youth engagement in public life. Over the past decade, concerns about a decrease in youth civic engagement have given way to an examination of new ways in which young people relate to the political realm, often in digitally mediated ways. Youth—as a period of time in life—is of particular consequence to political socialization, as the formative experiences of youth and engagement in politics during this time period shape future patterns of participation and engagement. This article examines how youth responded to the results of the 2016 US elections, as a potential formative political event, in a variety of online networked spaces. Our focus is on what their participation in these spaces reveals in terms of their relationships to traditional politics. We find that these platforms afford youth different modes of expression (including memes, games and artwork) and enable them to communicate openly about politics with peers. At the same time, the discourse on these sites may also exacerbate political cynicism, fear and a disconnection from the political process.","PeriodicalId":315618,"journal":{"name":"A Networked Self and Birth, Life, Death","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129058368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Storytelling the Self into Citizenship","authors":"L. Clark, Regina M. Marchi","doi":"10.4324/9781315202129-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315202129-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":315618,"journal":{"name":"A Networked Self and Birth, Life, Death","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128704588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Family Life in Polymedia","authors":"Mirca Madianou","doi":"10.4324/9781315202129-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315202129-6","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the consequences of social and mobile media for families separated because of work. The way in which transnational families maintain long distance relationships has been transformed by the increasingly ubiquitous presence of communication environments, understood here as polymedia. Drawing on long-term ethnographic work with transnational families, I will argue that polymedia become integral to the way family relationships are enacted and experienced. Although communication technologies do not solve the problems associated with long-term separation they do engender new forms of co-presence and intimacy which have powerful emotional consequences - both positive and negative - for relationships at a distance. Transnational families come into being in (rather than with) polymedia, revealing aspects of mediation that are relevant for personal relationships more broadly.","PeriodicalId":315618,"journal":{"name":"A Networked Self and Birth, Life, Death","volume":"356 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133047648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Media Rituals","authors":"J. Burgess, Peta Mitchell, F. Münch","doi":"10.4324/9781315202129-14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315202129-14","url":null,"abstract":"In 2016, the world mourned the loss of a number of famous people who had been of cultural significance across national and generational boundaries. Each of these deaths not only heralded intense affective and discursive activity on social media of the kind associated with public mourning, but they also enfolded ordinary users’ biographies into public expressions of memory, or provoked adjunctive conversations about other topics. To make sense of the patterns of mourning and memorialisation around these deaths, in this chapter we first establish a position on the uses of celebrity in popular culture. We revisit the literature on the cultural uses of celebrity, especially in everyday life. We trace the transformations of celebrity in digital culture, before focusing on celebrity deaths understood as media events, and proposing the idea of the social media ritual as a way to describe the communicative activity that surrounds these events. We focus particularly on the Twitter activity surrounding Bowie’s death, treating it as a paradigmatic example.","PeriodicalId":315618,"journal":{"name":"A Networked Self and Birth, Life, Death","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134427199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}