Note on Sources

Abstract

Extract Parts of this book expand on portions of previously published materials and earlier versions of essays, for which permissions to reprint have been obtained. Excerpts from my article “Existential Media: Toward a Theorization of Digital Thrownness,” New Media & Society, 19, no. 1 (2017): 96–110 are republished here by permission of Sage. Permission to reprint excerpts has also been obtained from Taylor and Francis for “Digital Existence: An Introduction,” in Digital Existence: Ontology, Ethics and Transcendence in Digital Culture, ed. Amanda Lagerkvist (London: Routledge, 2019). Reproduced with permission of The Licensor through PLSclear. Passages from these two texts appear in revised form in different theory sections of Part I. A differently framed version of chapter 5 was published as “Numerical Being and Non-being: Probing the Ethos of Quantification in Bereavement Online,” in A Networked Self and Birth, Life, Death, ed. Zizi Papacharissi (New York: Routledge, 2018), and it is reprinted here by permission of Taylor and Francis. Reproduced with permission of The Licensor through PLSclear. A different and shorter rendition of chapter 6 was published as Amanda Lagerkvist and Yvonne Andersson, “The Grand Interruption: Death Online and Mediated Lifelines of Shared Vulnerability,” Feminist Media Studies, 17, no. 4 (2017): 550–564, here reprinted with authorization from Taylor and Francis. Permission has also been obtained from Taylor and Francis to reprint parts of “The Media End: Digital Afterlife Agencies and Techno-existential Closure,” in Digital Memory Studies: Media Pasts in Transition, ed. Andrew Hoskins (New York: Routledge, 2017); the short piece “The Digital Afterlife,” in Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in Digital Media, ed. Heidi Campbell and Ruth Tsuria (New York: Routledge, 2021); and excerpts from “The Internet Is Always Awake: Sensations, Sounds and Silences of the Digital Grave,” in Digital Existence: Ontology, Ethics and Transcendence in Digital Culture, ed. Amanda Lagerkvist (London: Routledge, 2019), which now appear in a new synthesis as chapter 7. All reproduced with permission of The Licensor through PLSclear. Parts of chapter 8, finally, were published via Open Access as “Digital Limit Situations: Anticipatory Media beyond ‘the New AI Era,’ ” Journal of Digital Social Research, 2, no. 3 (2020): 16–41.