Death and Digital Media

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of figures Acknowledgements 1. Death and digital media: an introduction Digital technologies Understanding digital commemoration Key themes Mapping the field An interdisciplinary approach Overview of chapters Notes 2. Pre-digital mediums, media, and mediations Dead encounters with print and photography Communications media, mediums, and the dead Mediating death: from institutional to vernacular commemoration Conclusion Notes 3. The materialities of gravesites and websites The ephemeral and the enduring Inscriptions Publics Place Architecture and design Conclusion Notes 4. Death and social media: entanglements of policy and practice People, publics, and platforms Anna Svidersky’s commemorative publics Trolls, strangers, administrators Remembering and reconstructing Zyzz Digital traces and legacies Remaining live Media mobility, funeral vernaculars Conclusion Notes 5. Mixing repertoires: commemoration in digital games and online worlds Memorialising and living on through games Game rituals and player commemorations Ritualised play in quotidian spaces Contestations: matter out of place and/or fitting tribute Animating and remembering the dead Notes 6. The funeral as a site of innovation The funeral industry and the expo Pre-need technologies and services At-need technologies and services Post-need technologies and services Conclusion Notes 7. Looking to the future of life after death Everyday ‘life after death’ technologies Talking tombstones, playlists for the dead and living graveyards Posthumous messaging Living on Speculative futures Concluding thoughts Notes Death and digital media: an afterword Entanglements Endings Disposals Death’s thematics Notes References Index