A Networked Self and Birth Life Death

We are born live and die with technologies. This book is about the role technology plays in sustaining narratives of living dying and coming to be. Contributing authors examine how technologies connect disrupt or help us reorganize ways of parenting and nurturing life. They further consider how technology sustains our ways of thinking and being hopefully reconciling the distance between who we are and who we aspire to be. Finally they address the role technology plays in helping us come to terms with death looking at technologically enhanced memorials online rituals of mourning and patterns of grief enabled through technology. Ultimately this volume is about using technology to reimagine the art of life. . Language: English