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Death and Digital Media

Autor Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, Tamara Kohn, James Meese, Bjorn Nansen
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Death and Digital Media provides a critical overview of how people mourn, commemorate and interact with the dead through digital media. It maps the historical and shifting landscape of digital death, considering a wide range of social, commercial and institutional responses to technological innovations. The authors examine multiple digital platforms and offer a series of case studies drawn from North America, Europe and Australia. The book delivers fresh insight and analysis from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on anthropology, sociology, science and technology studies, human-computer interaction, and media studies. It is key reading for students and scholars in these disciplines, as well as for professionals working in bereavement support capacities.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138917965
ISBN-10: 1138917966
Pagini: 188
Ilustrații: 16
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

1. Death and Digital Media: An Introduction  2. Pre-Digital Mediums, Media, and Mediations  3. The Materialities of Gravesites and Websites  4. Death and Social Media: Entanglements of Policy and Practice  5. Mixing Repertoires: Commemoration in Digital Games and Online Worlds  6. The Funeral as a Site of Innovation  7. Looking to the Future of Life after Death  Afterword by Elizabeth Hallam 

Notă biografică

Michael Arnold is Associate Professor and Head of Discipline in the History and Philosophy of Science Programme in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Martin Gibbs is Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems and a member of the Interaction Design Lab (IDL) at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Tamara Kohn is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the School of Social and Political Sciences and Coordinator of Gender Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
James Meese is Lecturer in the School of Communication at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
Bjorn Nansen is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Descriere

This volume provides a critical overview of how people mourn, commemorate and interact with the dead through digital media. It maps the historical and shifting landscape of digital death, considering a wide range of social, commercial and institutional responses to technological innovations. The authors examine multiple digital platforms and offer a series of case studies drawn from North America, Europe and Australia. The book delivers fresh insight and analysis from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on anthropology, sociology, science and technology studies, human-computer interaction, and media studies.