Psychologist specialising in the impact of technology across the lifespan
Elaine Kasket, Psy.D., is a counselling psychologist, professor of psychology, speaker, author, and expert on the role and impact of digital technologies on work, family, individual psychology, and relationships. She is a leading expert on the juxtaposition of death and the digital and is the author of All the Ghosts in the Machine (2019) and the upcoming This is Your Life on Tech (2023), an examination of technology across the modern lifespan, from digital gestation to digital afterlife. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and in high demand as a keynote speaker and consultant.
How should we treat, think about, and interact with digital afterlives, and should personality rights now extend after physical death?
How have the fundamental psychosocial crises of each life stage been changed or intensified by the digital age?
In an environment where technology mediates and nudges so much of our behaviour, where are the remaining bastions of individual choice and control, and how can we exercise maximum agency?
Work samplePosition Statement: The impact of technologies on digital privacy of the dead and individual and collective memories