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Technology and Immortality: The Digital Narration of the Anthropologic Myth of Amortality

Tuesday, July 15, 2014: 4:15 PM
Room: Booth 43
Oral Presentation
Fiorenza GAMBA , University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
Death had always a traditional role on recording differences and inequalities of member of society. The raise of the modern version of the anthropologic myth of Amortality on the hand, and  the new digital devices of immortality on the other hand, both realize a contemporary narration of immortality: it points of change, of inequality, but in the same time, the new idea of immortality as well as a narration that holds together the dead and the alive and that stars by the personal intent of the subjects.

The highlights of presentation stressed these points:

  • The digital development of amortality on the net: Facebook and other sites.
  • Immortality for everyone: 
  • The latest boundaries: the self made immortality and the QR code

Short bibliography

Balandier (2004), Gamba (2013), Lafontaine (2008), Morin (1956), Odom et al.(2010), Thomas (1975), Walter, Littlewood, Pickering, (1995).

 the dead and the alive and that to st held by the personal  intent (purpose) of the subjects.

The highlights of presentation stressed these points:

  • the digital developpment of amortality on the net: Facebook and other sites.
  • immortality for everyone: 
  • the latest boundaries: the self made immortality and the QR code

Short bibliography

Balandier (2004), Gamba (2013), Lafontaine (2008), Morin (1956), Odom et al.(2010), Thomas (1975), Walter, Littlewood, Pickering (1995).