In this section we’ll consider the changes to death, dying, and the afterlife in the offline world wrought by contemporary technology.
Monday, March 25 (Week 10)
- Optional Haunted Media workshop
Wednesday, March 27
Friday, March 29
Monday, April 1 (Week 11)
- Shahak Shapira, “Yolocaust” (2017) (Now and Archived Version)
- Final Project handed out
Wednesday, April 3
- Alexandra Sherlock, “Larger than Life: Digital Resurrection and the Re-Enchantment of Society” from The Information Society (2013), pages 164-176
- Celebrity Deaths and Afterlife: Selling the dead, Behind the Tupac hologram, and the resurrection of Hollywood actors
- Blog (Round 4): Group D
Friday, April 5
- More on Digital Resurrections
- Blog (Round 4): Group E
Monday, April 8 (Week 12)
- Robin Marantz Henig, “Death by Robot” from The New York Times (January 9, 2015)
- Danny Yadron and Dan Tynan, “Tesla Driver Dies in First Fatal Crash While Using Autopilot Mode” from The Guardian (June 30, 2016)
- Jack Stewart, “After Probing Tesla’s Deadly Crash, Feds Say Yay to Self-Driving” from Wired (January 20, 2017)
- Blog (Round 5): Group A
Wednesday, April 10
- Sarah Gailey, “STET” from Fireside Magazine (2018)
- Blog (Round 5): Group B
Friday, April 12
- Ganna Yankovska and Kevin Hannam, “Dark and Toxic Tourism in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone” from Current Issues in Tourism (2014), pages 929-939
- Blog (Round 5): Group C
Header: “Ferris Wheel, Pripyat, Ukraine” (2008) via Flickr, Creative Commons