Michael Arnold

Digital Domesticity Media, Materiality, and Home Life

Jenny Kennedy Postdoctoral researcher

Book  |  2020

"This book, Digital Domesticity: Media, Materiality, and Home Life, is concerned with the home, but it is not bounded by the home.

Apathetic villagers and the trolls who love them: Player amorality in online multiplayer games

L Sparrow, M Gibbs, M Arnold

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  OZCHI'19: Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction

Players are sometimes understood to hold an 'amoral' stance in games, morally disengaging from game content and in-game player beh..

Embracing and Distancing the Materiality of Death through Cremation

Michael Arnold

Book Chapter  |  2019

This book provides a critical overview of the changing ways people mourn, commemorate and interact with the remains of the dead, i..

Managing the consumption of death and digital media: The funeral director as market intermediary

Luke van Ryn, James Meese, Michael Arnold, Bjorn Nansen, Martin Gibbs, Tamara Kohn

Journal article  |  2019  |  Death Studies

A growing number of companies are offering digital products and services for use in funerals. Drawing on interdisciplinary researc..

The disposition of the destitute

Michael Arnold, Bjorn Nansen, Tamara Kohn, Martin Gibbs, Hannah Gould

Journal article  |  2019  |  Parity

The final disposition is a term used by people in the funeral industry to refer to the burial or cremation of a dead person. The f..

The Social Life of the Dead and the Leisured Life of the Living Online

T KOHN, J Meese, M Arnold, M Gibbs, B Nansen

Book Chapter  |  2018

Algorithmic memorial videos: Contextualising automated curation

A Lambert, B Nansen, M Arnold

Journal article  |  2018  |  Memory Studies

Web platforms such as Facebook and Google have recently developed features which algorithmically curate digital artefacts composed..

Death and Digital Media

M Arnold, M Gibbs, T Kohn, J Meese, B Nansen

Book  |  2018

Death and Digital Media provides a critical overview of how people mourn, commemorate and interact with the dead through digital m..

Death and the Internet: Consumer issues for planning and managing digital legacies (2nd edition)

B Nansen, E van der Nagel, T Kohn, M Arnold, M Gibbs

Report  |  2017

Death and Digital Media

Michael Arnold, James Meese

Book  |  2017

The book delivers fresh insight and analysis from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on anthropology, sociology, science an..