To the Statement of the Problem of Mortality in the Age of New Media

This article is devoted to the problem of mortality in the context of developing new media environment. Global digitalization of the world can be observed in all that is connected with the human, including death. In the changing technological conditions, the modern user of the Internet and gadgets regularly faces some new qualities and expressions of mortality, which often surprise, become the subject of wide public discussion and illustrate the lack of intellectual reflection. However, the transformation of this phenomenon still remains understood incompletely and requires a scientific understanding in terms of different humanitarian disciplines, one of which, undoubtedly, should be philosophy, that can be useful in the implementation of modern technological practices. The author outlines the problem field and defines several main vectors of the further study. Among the vectors, there are the transformation of mourning rituals under the influence of new media and the specifics of online memorialization, the legal practices and the necessity to revise them in the new reality, the ethical problems associated with the changes in the status of privacy and taboo of death, the psychological and other aspects, in the light of which the phenomenon of mortality should be considered in the digital era.

online-memorialization, the Internet, social networks, vitality, mortality, philosophy of technics, digital profile, thanatology

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