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First My Dad, Then My iPhone: An Autoethnographic Sketch of Digital Death

Erst mein Vater, dann mein iPhone: ein autoethnografischer Sketch über digitales Sterben
[journal article]

Clarke, Daniel Wade

Abstract

Potentially lousy singing and research poetry are used to make sense of losing - soon after he died - my iPhone containing video footage of my father singing. Since I did not back up this digital treasure, not only is he now physically dead, he is digitally dead (MONCUR, 2016) too. Considering how b... view more

Potentially lousy singing and research poetry are used to make sense of losing - soon after he died - my iPhone containing video footage of my father singing. Since I did not back up this digital treasure, not only is he now physically dead, he is digitally dead (MONCUR, 2016) too. Considering how bereavement is shaped by digital death, in this article I focus on my experience of grief following this double loss. How is a lost video and the device that stored my memories impacting my encounter with loss? Haunting, and being haunted by, digital technology and the lost treasure, I write my way through this combined loss, showing what (im)mortality in a digital context brings me into contact with. I hope this writing connects with and encourages those struggling to persevere with similar technology-based hauntings.... view less


Es ist mir sehr schwer gefallen zu akzeptieren, dass ich - kurz nach seinem Tod - mein iPhone mit Videoaufzeichnungen meines singenden Vaters verloren habe. Da ich diesen digitalen Schatz nicht gesichert hatte, ist mein Vater nun nicht nur physikalisch, sondern auch digital tot (MONCUR 2016). Indem ... view more

Es ist mir sehr schwer gefallen zu akzeptieren, dass ich - kurz nach seinem Tod - mein iPhone mit Videoaufzeichnungen meines singenden Vaters verloren habe. Da ich diesen digitalen Schatz nicht gesichert hatte, ist mein Vater nun nicht nur physikalisch, sondern auch digital tot (MONCUR 2016). Indem ich mir vergegenwärtige, wie der schmerzliche Verlust durch digitalen Tod gerahmt wurde, wende ich mich in diesem Artikel meiner Trauererfahrung nach diesem doppelten Verlusterleben zu. In welcher Weise beeinflusst das verlorene Video mit den aufgezeichneten Erinnerungen mein Erleben des Verlusts? Ich zeichne mein Ringen um die Bedeutung digitaler (Un-)Sterblichkeit nach und hoffe, andere zu ermutigen, die mit ähnlichen technologie-basierten Einschnitten zu kämpfen haben.... view less

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Interactive, electronic Media

Free Keywords
Autoethnografie; Forschungsgedichte; Kunst; Qual; Vater und Sohn; Verlust; affective writing; affektives Schreiben; autoethnography; creative arts practices; digital death; digitaler Tod; fathers and sons; good enough; hauntings; kreative Praxis; loss; lousy singing; research poetry

Document language
English

Publication Year
2020

Page/Pages
20 p.

Journal
Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 21 (2020) 2

ISSN
1438-5627

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0


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