By virtue of teaching my "Death in the Digital Age" course, my beat has become AI griefbots that appear to let you talk to dead loved ones. Spoiler 1: they do not. Spoiler 2: capitalism.
In the 1920s Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of that most rational of detectives, Sherlock Holmes, published "The Coming of the Fairies"—about the incontrovertible photographic evidence of the existence of fae folk.
What happens to your games after you die? If it’s a digital game, chances are that you don’t even own the game to begin with…
Voices of people lost to gun violence have been re-created using AI to call for action, now six years to the day after the Parkland shooting that killed 17
Obituary clickbait. The worst of two separate worlds. Add to the Death in the Digital Age syllabus
Bookmarking Jessica Balanzategui's piece for the next iteration of my Death in the Digital Age course
Here's an evocative Twine horror game to include in the next version of my Death in the Digital Age course.
Here's an evocative Twine horror game to include in the next version of my Death in the Digital Age course.
Good background on Chernobyl for when we talk about "dark tourism" in "Death in the Digital Age"
Good background on Chernobyl for when we talk about "dark tourism" in "Death in the Digital Age"
Perfect timing for this NYT article on contemporary mediums. Just yesterday in DIG 215 we were talking about the Fox sisters and their "spiritual telegraph" to the afterlife.
Perfect timing for this NYT article on contemporary mediums. Just yesterday in DIG 215 we were talking about the Fox sisters and their "spiritual telegraph" to the afterlife.
Possible Twine game to include on my Death in the Digital Age syllabus, with shades of Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains”
Possible Twine game to include on my Death in the Digital Age syllabus, with shades of Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains”
Adding to my Death in the Digital Age class, where we’re already discussing demons and exorcism in the 21st century
Adding to my Death in the Digital Age class, where we’re already discussing demons and exorcism in the 21st century
Adding this to my “Death in the Digital Age” syllabus for the spring.
Adding this to my “Death in the Digital Age” syllabus for the spring.
Going to revisit this next semester for my Death in the Digital Age course
Going to revisit this next semester for my Death in the Digital Age course