The search of a digital immortality?

Abstract

The text intends to examine how technological innovations allow the construction of web spaces for shared funeral rituals and their partecipation by those same communities that move across the network. It can be assumed a new resacralization process of rituals referring to an individual system of meanings. The web may be capable of reappropriating the experience of pain through new ways that allow flexible access and fruition without spatial or temporal limits. They are interactive rituals that build an elective sociality, as practiced by the inclusion decisions under emotionally meaningful groups. The search for a digital alter ego that will survive the earthly physicality threatens to tarnish the very identity of the dead.

Keywords

• Riti funebri
• Cimiteri virtuali
• Morte digitale
• Rielaborazione del lutto
• Morte