Still Spoken
They say that the dead are not dead as long as their names are still spoken. Dr Elaine Kasket - psychologist, speaker and author of All the Ghosts in the Machine - examines how the dead live on through us, through our stories and through technology.
Episodes
8 episodes
Dying in the Public Eye: Catherine Mayer and the Legacy of Andy Gill
In this unmissable episode of Still Spoken, Elaine Kasket talks with Catherine Mayer, who was married to Andy...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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55:56
The Other End of Identity: Digital Gestation and Children's Data
Usually, Still Spoken is about how your data lives on through technology after you die. But how do you live in technology before you're able to form your own digital footprint, perhaps before you're even born? When I was writing one of ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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52:16
Haunted Media: Fantasies of Electric Immortality
Jeffrey Sconce is Professor in the Screen Cultures program and a Guggenheim Fellow for 2020-2021. Back in 2000, he published
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:03:15
Dead Celebrities, Trolls and Grief Police: Mourning Online
As Halloween approaches, Forbes Magazine posts its roster of that year's top-earning dead celebrities. That's ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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50:43
The Dead Professors' Society
In February 2021, a post on Twitter by a Concordia University student in Canada went viral. Aaron Ansuini had emailed his lecturer a question. He didn't get a...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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55:57
Can Social Media Companies Profit off the Data of the Dead? with Carl Ohman
Do the dead live forever on social media? If so, how might the social media companies exploit their memories - AND the data of the living? The citizens of the modern age have handed over responsibility for the dead - and culture, and history - ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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40:49
Immortality through Storytelling, with Scott Young
In They Both Die at the End, Adam Silvera writes that 'stories can make someone immortal as long as someone else is willing to listen.' Annie died in 2019, but to London audiences of
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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32:06
The Gift from Beyond the Grave: Kim Kardashian's Birthday Present, with Patrick Stokes
Just in time for Halloween, the news hit that Kanye West gifted his wife a hologram of her late father as a 40th birthday surprise. Is this the best or worst present ever? And should we be treating this as a weird headline about those crazy cel...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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27:47