{"id":793,"date":"2019-03-12T23:14:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T03:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/?p=793"},"modified":"2019-03-12T23:14:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T03:14:17","slug":"haunted-apple-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/2019\/03\/12\/haunted-apple-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Haunted Apple Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve been discussing the idea of haunted media for a few classes now and after Kate Pullinger\u2019s story Breathe<\/em> began thinking about how ghosts can use technology as a medium to connect to humans. This reminded me of a minisode from the podcast My Favorite Murder<\/em> where someone wrote into the hosts telling a story of a time a ghost communicated through the person\u2019s Apple Watch (MFM Minisode 103<\/a>).<\/p>\n

For nine years the person who wrote in has celebrated New Years with another family, but a few years ago the hosts husband, Jerry, took his own life. The family has still continued hosting without him and this was the second year he was absent. When the person who wrote in got home, she checked the weather on her Apple Watch. Her weather app tells the weather using snarky language, such as \u201cYou\u2019re gonna take these clouds and you\u2019re gonna like them,\u201d instead of saying cloudy. But instead of telling the weather it showed this message:\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

20 minutes later the app was back to giving its normal weather updates. She finishes this story by saying, \u201cJerry loved tech. Those that knew him decided that if he was going to send a message, a snarky weather app would totally be the platform.\u201d She hasn\u2019t seen a message like this since.<\/p>\n

Messages from ghosts on modern technology such as smart watches and phones feels more invasive and eerie in a new way than we are used to. I think our culture associates the eerie and ghosts to spaces of absence such as graveyards and abandoned buildings (see Mark Fisher). But our phones and watches are extensions of ourselves and something we keep on our person at all times. Smart technology is very present in our lives, so when that safe space is invaded by the unknown, it is even more terrifying and disrupting than we are expecting. The invasion feels personal and uncanny, an experience even felt in Pullinger’s story as it uses your personal data to make it feel as if the ghost knows who and where you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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