Abstract

MARQUEZ, Israel. “Death 2.0”: Thinking and Imagining Death in the Digital Age. Andamios [online]. 2017, vol.14, n.33, pp.103-120. ISSN 2594-1917.

This paper deals with the need to understand the meaning of death in today’s digital culture. In particular, it attempts to highlight how many of the modern ideas of death still present nowadays (privatization, invisibilization and desocialization of death, or the overall simplification of funeral rites) are challenged with the advent of the Web 2.0 and its emphasis on visibility, connectivity and sociability. The paper concludes that these and other characteristics of the so-called “Social Web” connect death in the current digital era with a pre-modern or primitive conception of death.

Keywords : Death; modernity; premodernity; digital culture; Web 2.0.

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