Death & facebook /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Baal, Iphgenia, author.
Uniform title:	Merced es benz
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Los Angeles, California : We Heard You Like Books, 2018.
Description:	202 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Baal, Iphgenia -- Fiction. Man-woman relationships -- Fiction. Literature and the Internet -- Fiction. Literature and the Internet. Man-woman relationships. Experimental fiction. Autobiographical fiction. Autobiographical fiction. Experimental fiction. Fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11669766

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Death and facebook
ISBN:	0996421882 9780996421881
Notes:	"A previous edition of this book was published in the UK by Bookworks under the title Merced es benz, 2016"--Title page verso.
Summary:	An account of a dysfunctional love affair, narrated via SMS, email, Facebook and Google search results, act as a body of circumstantial evidence, betraying a 'real' intimacy behind a messy social media scandal that spilled into tabloid coverage. Told against a backdrop of a pre-Olympic London where east London's awful art parties, populated by the debased progeny of the rich and famous, do little to dispel 90s rave nostalgia, Iphgenia Baal's non-fiction novel balances at the intersection of death, mourning, and Facebook.

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Summary:	No one wants to end up #RIP with 45 likes, your death traded as someone else's fleeting social capital, your last inane status update being the one that defines you for all time, your 'Friends' competitive grieving, and misery tourists perusing your profile.<br> <br> <br> <br> But Facebook has become the channel for broadcasting news of the recently deceased, with the number of "memorialized" Facebook accounts soon to eclipse accounts of the living. Mark Zuckerberg is a merchant of death.<br> <br> <br> <br> Whether it's the demise of another geriatric celebrity, or that your best friend from college took a pill and jumped off a roof, nothing makes your News Feed blow up like someone being dead. There is a rush to tag the deceased in albums of lo-res photos, to share favorite songs as YouTube links, and to post long, dolorous, largely misspelled status updates.<br> <br> <br> <br> Facebook claims the deceased as its own, commodifying misery and entering it into its usual agenda: stalking your online shopping habits, advertising clothes, confused political declarations, and wondering why you haven't had a baby yet.<br> <br> <br> <br> Set in a London where Mick Jagger's kids rule the social scene, Death and Facebook is a true account of a dysfunctional love affair that ends in disaster, posthumously pieced together from threads in Facebook Messenger, archived email, saved SMS, and a Google search history.
Item Description:	"A previous edition of this book was published in the UK by Bookworks under the title Merced es benz, 2016"--Title page verso.
Physical Description:	202 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN:	0996421882 9780996421881