People buy and sell human remains online. Most of this trade these days is over social media. In a study of this ‘bone trade’, how it works, and why it matters, the authors review and use a variety of methods drawn from the digital humanities to analyze the sheer volume of social media posts in search of answers to questions regarding this online bone trade. The answers speak to how the 21st century understands and constructs ‘heritage’ more generally: each person their own expert, yet seeking community and validation, and like the major encyclopedic museums, built on a kind of digital neocolonialist othering of the dead.
Tabella dei contenuti
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface: They Sell What Online?
Chapter 1. The Lives Behind The Photos
Chapter 2. The Dead For Sale
Chapter 3. Looking At Bodies
Chapter 4. The Lies Behind the Bodies?
Chapter 5. Why Does It Matter?
Glossary of Terms
Appendix A: A Walk Through of the Instagram CLI Python Package
Appendix B: A Walk Through of the Pix Plot Python Package
Appendix C: Text Analysis with Python and Jupyter
References
Circa l’autore
Shawn Graham is a digital archaeologist. He is Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of History at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario. He is also a cofounder of the Alliance to Counter Crime Online.
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