The Digital Civil Society Lab was delighted to be joined by Dr. Tamara Kneese who discussed her book, Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond. How are users and workers remaking platforms into spaces for memorialization and resistance? Preserving digital remains requires specialized forms of care. Platforms are often in control over what digital legacies look like and how long they are maintained. At the same time, grassroots organizing on the part of users and workers have remade platforms as places for memorialization and resistance.
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