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"In recent years, more and more of our lives takes place online. But what about our afterlives? Thanks to the digital trails of data we leave behind, much of "who we are" can be reconstructed-even after our death. Sooner than we think, the dead will outnumber the living on Facebook, and in time, AI technology will allow us to "interact" with the departed. In this short, thought-provoking book, Carl èOhman asks us to consider what happens to our data after we pass away. How do we decide what data should be preserved? What sorts of ethical issues does it raise? We live in what èOhman calls the post-mortal condition, one in which the dead and the living coexist online through digital remains. Examining government digital heritage committees, public archives, NGOs, museums, and commercial institutions, èOhman analyzes various forms of data preservation and digital reanimation, ultimately calling for us, as a society, to acknowledge and to engage creatively with our condition. He calls for us to reevaluate the relationship between the living and the dead, and to work together to create a shared ethics of preservation. This isn't just the duty of our digital overlords. These are our lives, our deaths, and it is time we think seriously about how we want our data to be treated"--

Silja ist ein lebensfroher Mensch, der eine ganz eigene Art hat, das Leben magisch zu machen. Sie hat wunderbare Freunde, Erfolg im Job und vielfältige Interessen. Dann kommt ME/CFS* und sie muss auf all das Stück für Stück verzichten, bis sie schließlich entscheidet, dass der heilsamste nächste Schritt ist, ihr Leben zu beenden.Dies ist die Geschichte davon, wie ihre Schwester Birte und ihr Umfeld damit zurechtkommen, und wie sie alle gemeinsam Siljas letzte Zeit erleben. Es ist eine Geschichte über Pflege, Trauer und Schmerz, aber auch eine Geschichte von unglaublichem Zusammenhalt, tiefer menschlicher Nähe und -­ letztendlich ­ Liebe zum Leben. *Myalgische Enzephalomyelitis/Chronisches Fatigue-Syndrom, eine schwere und häufige Multisystemerkrankung, die aber kaum bekannt ist. Keywords: ME/CFS, LongCovid, PostCovid, Pflege, assistierter Suizid, Sterbehilfe, Trauer, Sterben, Trauerprozesse, persönliche Entwicklung, Beziehungen.

The Power of Personal Data: How it Shapes the Future of Business and SocietyIn today's digital age, personal data has become a valuable commodity, fueling the growth of many businesses and shaping the society we live in. The widespread use of the Internet and mobile devices has given rise to new business models that cater to our every need and convenience online. As a result, there is a race for data supremacy through the collection and exploitation of personal data, which feeds artificial intelligence (AI) tools and solutions such as ChatGPT, BingAI, and others.Here are a few highlights of what you will learn: Companies collect and analyze personal data to market to consumers based on their searches, behavioral habits, and purchasing patterns.Some of these companies provide habit-changing services that can result in irreversible social change.Personal data has become a currency that people are willing to trade for convenience, entertainment, and instant gratification.The book delves into the potential impact of personal data on the future of business and society.It explores the new surveillance capitalism business model, privacy concerns, the impact of social media, and how the future is shaping up given AI, Metaverse, and other online data-hungry solutions and applications.It also offers practical steps (Digital Gold Nuggets) that individuals can take to reclaim and reposition their data power.Some readers may be skeptical about the impact of personal data on society and may question the practicality of the suggested steps to reclaim data power.By understanding the power of personal data, readers can take control of their digital footprint and make informed decisions about their online activities.This book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of privacy and the impact of personal data on society.Get your copy of the book today to discover the power of personal data and take control of your digital life.

The concept of smart cities holds environmental promises: that digital technologies will reduce carbon emissions, air pollution and waste, and help address climate change. Drawing on academic scholarship and two case studies from Manchester and Helsinki, this timely and accessible book examines what happens when these promises are broken, as they prioritise technological innovation rather than environmental care. The book reveals that smart cities' vision of sustainable digital future obfuscates the environmental harms and social injustices that digitisation inflicts. The framework of "broken promises", coined by the authors, centres environmental questions in analysing imaginaries and practices of smart cities. This is a must read for anyone interested in the connections between digital technologies and environment justice.

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book presents an in-depth analysis of the complex and often controversial world of fertility care. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research and interviews with patients and professionals, the book critically examines the tensions between evidence-based medicine and the demands of an increasingly commercialized fertility care industry. It sheds light on controversial "add-on" treatments, and an emerging hope market. With its interdisciplinary approach, this is an essential resource for readers in the fields of science and technology studies and medical sociology.

This book offers an in-depth investigation into the digitisation processes of Europe's border regime. It shows how sociotechnical imaginations of future borders drive forward the expansion of databases in the European governance of mobility. With a focus on the European Union Agency eu-LISA, one of the most significant and rapidly advancing actors in the digital border regime, the book serves as a gateway to understanding the key agents, visions, technologies and practices at work. Asking broader questions about exclusion, discrimination, violence and mobility rights, this is an original contribution to our understanding of future borders in Europe.

Recent decades have witnessed the creation of new types of property systems, ranging from data ownership to national control over genetic resources. This trend has significant implications for wealth distribution and our understanding of who can own what. This book explores the idea of ownership in the realm of plant breeding, revealing how plants have been legally and materially transformed into property. It highlights the controversial aspects of turning seeds, plants and genes into property and how this endangers the viability of the seed industry. Examining ownership not simply as a legal concept, but as a bundle of laws, practices and technologies, this is a valuable contribution that will interest scholars of intellectual property studies, the anthropology of markets, science and technology studies and related fields.

"A microhistory of abortion in nineteenth-century United States, which tells the story of Josephine McCarty, an abortionist and female physician tried for murder in upstate New York in 1872"--

My wife, Sally, suffered and died after a decade-long struggle with dementia. Her experiences retold here, along with my own as her caregiver, can help people making a similar end-of-life journey. To assist them, I propose and discuss a humane way to deal with dementia at the end of life, one that Sally believed in and would have enthusiastically endorsed for herself: the Right to Die. Because Sally could not exercise her right to die, we had to endure her traumatic final years in memory care as she struggled with her steadily worsening affliction, forgetting who she was and what gave meaning to her life, with the result that both she and I were relegated to the ranks of the forgotten. The book includes a "Tool Box" of resources to assist individuals who are seeking help and support in their caretaking endeavors. I hope this book will stimulate readers to think differently about how we die and how we should be allowed to die.

Bist Du Dir sicher? Dass es so war. Wie Du denkst. Als Martha in den Norden zieht, hat sie einen tollen Job als Kinderärztin, ein traumhaftes Gartenhaus und einen Mann. Doch eine einzige Nacht zerstört ihr Leben. Behauptet sie doch, dass während ihrer Schicht in der Klinik ein schwer misshandeltes Mädchen verstorben ist. Ihr Chef streitet ab, dass dieses Kind je existiert hat. Martha begibt sich in eine Therapie. Doch kaum wird sie entlassen, passiert es wieder. Sie findet einen halbtoten Jungen am Straßenrand, der spurlos verschwindet, als sie ihn ins Krankenhaus bringen will. Marthas Suche nach den Kindern wird zu einer verzweifelten Jagd nach Gewissheit. Doch wem kann sie noch trauen? Der Polizei jedenfalls nicht. Und was ist das für ein seltsames Dorf, in das ihre Schwester gezogen ist? Abgelegen an einem Moor. Alle Spuren der verschwundenen Kinder scheinen dorthin zu führen, auch wenn niemand sie vermisst.

STRIKKEPINDE OG SÆBEVAND Kvindeliv i Danmark i tiden før den fri abort Bogen indeholder en samling breve skrevet af kvinder, som levede i tiden, før aborten blev fri. Det liv, som kvinderne beskriver, er domineret af snævre sociale forhold og af en graviditets- og seksualitetsangst, som først for alvor lettede ved indførelsen af den fri abort i 1973. Brevene viser kvindernes mod og styrke, deres svagheder og fortrydelser. Ud fra brevene vælder der en fortabthed og rådvildhed, men også en kunnen og en undergrundsviden, som kvinderne lærte sig, når de kom “i ulykke”. Kvinderne var så pressede, fortvivlede og modige, at de satte deres helbred og i sidste instans også deres liv på spil.

"A sweeping exposâe of the U.S. government's alliance with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers, and how their efforts are reshaping surveillance and privacy as we know it. Our modern world is awash in surveillance. Most of us are dimly aware of this-ever get the sense that an ad is "following" you around the internet?-but we don't understand the extent to which the technology embedded in our phones, computers, cars, and homes is part of a vast ecosystem of data collection. Our public spaces are blanketed by cameras put up in the name of security. And pretty much everything that emits a wireless signal of any kind-routers, televisions, Bluetooth devices, chip-enabled credit cards, even the tires of every car manufactured since the mid-2000s-can be and often is covertly monitored. All of this surveillance has produced an extraordinary amount of data about every citizen-and the biggest customer is the U.S. government. Reporter Byron Tau has been digging deep inside the growing alliance between business, tech, and government for years, piecing together a secret story: how the whole of the internet and every digital device in the world have become a mechanism of intelligence, surveillance, and monitoring. Tau traces the unlikely tale of how the government came to view commercial data as a principal asset of national security in the years after 9/11, working with scores of anonymous companies, many scattered across bland Northern Virginia suburbs, to build a foreign and domestic surveillance capacity of such breathtaking scope that it could peer into the lives of nearly everyone on the planet. The result is a cottage industry of data brokers and government bureaucrats with one directive-"get everything you can"-and, as Tau observes, a darkly humorous world in which defense contractors have marketing subsidiaries, and marketing companies have defense contractor subsidiaries. Sobering and revelatory, Means of Control is our era's defining story of the dangerous grand bargain we've made: ubiquitous, often cheap technology, but at what price to our privacy?"--

Private Censorship is about free speech and how corporations and social groups can interfere with it. J.P. Messina asks and variously answers questions like: what should we think when employees get fired for things they say? When is it appropriate for social media firms to deplatform users, and what does it mean for our democracy that those in charge of such decisions are often wealthy Silicon Valley executives? Do search engines act as massive gatekeepers to information in troubling ways, and how might they be constrained if so? Messina argues that while there is much to worry about when it comes to these exercises of private power, it would be a mistake to simply do away with them, as some have suggested.

To be a poet is to create and march to one's own beat. To be a poet against the malignant rhythm of this godforsaken prison, is a revolutionary act governed by a love greater than the hate Pete is so often forced to bear. Pete is a poet. He is not beyond a prisoner's burden, but he refuses to allow it to define him. From a broken and bruised place, Pete's poems are butterflies that cannot be confined. This collection of 100 poems is an embodiment of his perseverance and a reflection of our struggle as a species. - Howard Guidry

Ein striktes Verbot der Eizellspende ist in einer liberalen Gesellschaft nicht gerechtfertigt. Dennoch ist sie mit Problemen behaftet, die nicht ignoriert werden sollten. Diese Arbeit untersucht jene Probleme aus moralphilosophischer Perspektive und zeigt Rahmenbedingungen auf, wie ein guter Umgang mit der Eizellspende gelingen kann. Zusätzlich werden zahlreiche Schnittstellen zu anderen Fortpflanzungsverfahren herausgestellt.

Er du ikke bange for at fortryde? er et spejl til dig, der har besluttet dig. Til dig, der er i tvivl. Til dig, der ikke vidste, du havde et valg.Mere end hver tiende kvinde får ikke børn. For nogle er det forbundet med sorg, for andre er det ganske frivilligt. De har simpelthen bare ikke lyst.I Er du ikke bange for at fortryde? fortæller Sanne, Line, Rebecca, Kathrine, Jette, Pia, Brita og Nelle om deres ­oplevelser med at vælge et liv uden børn. Samtidig belyser en række eksperter emnet set fra deres stol.Hvorfor ønsker nogle kvinder sig ikke børn, når det er så naturligt et ønske for de fleste? Og hvad betyder det for vores forståelse af kvinderollen, når den løsriver sig fra moderrollen?

Der Umgang mit Konfliktschwangerschaften und die verschiedenen Lösungsmöglichkeiten sind Kernthemen im Religions- und Ethikunterricht an weiterführenden Schulen. Dieses Buch leistet einen authentischen Beitrag zur Behandlung des Themas im Unterricht: Die dargestellten Fälle und Situationen sind überwiegend dem wirklichen Leben entnommen. Sie regen zum Nachdenken und Diskutieren an und betrachten den Konflikt aus verschiedenen Perspektiven. Zudem beinhaltet das Buch zahlreiche Informationen zur vorgeburtlichen Entwicklung, zur Rechtslage im Bezug auf Schwangerschaftsabbrüche in Deutschland und zur besonderen Situation von Menschen mit Einschränkungen. Wichtig: Konkrete Tipps und Hinweise dazu, wo Hilfe, Rat und Tat im Fall einer unerwarteten Schwangerschaft angeboten werden. Damit ist das Buch ein Mutmacher und Nachlagewerk.

Virkeligheden overgår fantasien i et kaos af svindel og knuste drømme i Annikas kamp for at blive mor.Billedet på Facebook fik det til at løbe koldt ned ad ryggen på Annika. Det viste en tatovering med børnenavne og fødselsdatoer – navnene på et par tvillingepiger, der, hvis man regnede tilbage, passede med datoen for de befrugtede æg, som Annikas rugemor havde fået sat op. Befrugtede æg, som rugemoren påstod var gået tabt. Havde hun snydt Annika og fuldført graviditeten? Havde hun beholdt børnene selv, selvom de var skabt af Annika og hendes kommende mand? Rugemoren fra Helvede er en hudløst ærlig skildring af en tiltænkt mors møde med en svindlende rugemor og den efterfølgende kamp for retfærdighed. En selv- og samfundskritisk fortælling om ikke at kunne skabe liv og om at prøve alligevel ved hjælp af en anden. Annika skildrer ubærlige følelser og voldsomme udbrud af magtesløshed og en vedvarende smerte forårsaget af barnløshedens tortur. Undervejs kæmper hun med tankerne om de to små piger, som – på trods – alligevel bliver født ind i denne verden. En verden, Annika først fik adgang til efter flere års opslidende kamp mod en forældet lovgivning på rugemorområdet.

A Stunning Look At The World's Most Intriguing Conspiracy Theories And Cover UpsHave you ever wondered what really happened when some of the worlds most amazing conspiracy theories were brought to light. You are about to discover many of the worlds most popular conspiracy theories and what is really known to be true about them, what is thought to be fake and what most people believe. Get ready for the real truth about: The New World OrderThe JFK AssassinationThe Moon LandingWas The Holocaust a Conspiracy?The Vatican ConspiracyAnd so much more!This book is an examination into these proposed theories concerning the history behind the airport, including necessity and funding, strange artwork murals The summary of the evidence will allow the reader to calculate their own conclusions and determine further research on this highly debated matter.