Archive for the ‘Death + Popular Culture’ Category
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2, May 2012.
- By: John
- In: Death + Popular Culture|Death + Technology|Death + the Web
- Tags: bioethics, Facebook
On the Media: Updating Your Social Media After You Die WNYC Public Radio (March 23, 2012) With social media, so much of our interactions with the world now live online, even after we may not be living at all. Brooke talks to James Norris, the founder of the website Deadsocial about prolonging social media relationships [...]
Bristol Live Open Platform (BLOP Festival) The Arnolfini, Bristol (UK) Saturday 25 February, 2012 11.00am – 8.00pm £6.00 / £5.00 concessions Full BLOP Festival Schedule John Erik Troyer, Ph.D. performs at 2:45pm on February 25 We here at the Death Reference Desk are always full of surprises. So it should come as no shock that [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: lecture
The Facebook Show On The Media, WNYC Public Radio (February 03, 2012) An Austrian man who got Facebook to give him everything they had on him, a writer whose rapist friended her on Facebook, the value of a “Like.” Living Online After Death Faces Nebraska Legal Battle BBC News (January 31, 2012) WNYC’s On the [...]
Poor Dead Steve Jobs May Not Own His Dead Image
15, Jan 2012Who Owns You Image After You Die? On the Media (January 13, 2012) Really interesting radio story by WNYC’s On the Media programme on what happens to an individual’s ‘image’ after he or she dies. Here is the set-up: A Chinese toy maker is set to release a Steve Jobs action figure next month, but [...]