This book advances debates on digital culture and digital religion and is the first volume on our digital existence in the budding field of existential media studies.

Foreword, John Durham Peters; Digital Existence: An Introduction, Amanda Lagerkvist PART I: Media Ontologies 1 Irremediability: On the Very Concept of Digital Ontology, Justin Clemens and Adam Nash 2 Umwelt and Individuation: Digital Signals and Technical Being, Jonas Andersson Schwarz 3 Thrownness, Vulnerability, Care: A Feminist Ontology for the Digital Age,Margaret Schwartz 4 Digital Unworld(s): The Bielefeld Conspiracy, Yvette Granata PART II: Being human: Extension, Exposure and Ethics 5 You Have Been Tagged: Magical Incantations, Digital Incarnations and Extended Selves, Paul Frosh 6 Surveillance, Sensors, and Knowledge Through the Machine, Sun-ha Hong 7 Social Media and the Care of the Self, Ganaele Langlois 8 The Ethics of Digital Being: Vulnerability, Invulnerability, and 'Dangerous Surprises', Vincent Miller PART III: Transcendence: Beyond life, death and the human 9 The Internet is Always Awake: Sensations, Sounds and Silences of the Digital Grave, Amanda Lagerkvist 10 Digital Rituals and the Quest for Existential Security, Johanna Sumiala 11 Cybernetic Animism: Non-Human Personhood and the Internet, Devin Proctor 12 Death in Life and Life in Death: Forms and Fates of the Human, Connor Graham and Alfred Montoya; Afterword, Charles M. Ess