Noile vieți de apoi; imortalitatea socială în contextul tehnologiilor digitale. Editura Tritonic, București, 2020. Ștefania Matei

Abstract

Following doctoral studies in sociology, an interesting work has been published on the impact of digital technologies on the commemorative practices of cultural heroes. The book is structured around the analysis of many case studies that help the reader to better understand the new social and cultural contexts of the hereafter. The research author is Dr Ștefania Matei, who carefully analyses the social processes that articulate the posthumous presence and highlights the mutations she observes în practice and the meanings of social immortality due to the influences of digital facilities.

Keywords

• sociology
• digitised society
• immortality
• cultural hero
• posthumous memory
• afterlife