Digital Commemoration

Grant number: DP140101871 | Funding period: 2014 - 2018

Completed

Abstract

This project investigates the interrelated commemorative practices, technology platforms, and social formations associated with digital commemoration. The urgency of this project arises as diverse forms of digital commemoration are increasingly used to express grief, solidarity and community, but are also a source of public and often personal disquiet. Digital commemoration is an emerging and often controversial practice with important implications for social institutions, cultural conventions and personal values. This study makes a timely evidence-based contribution to an understanding of changing commemorative practices, their digital mediation, and the interactions between them.

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

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#Funeral and Instagram: death, social media, and platform vernacular

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Death and the Internet: Consumer issues for planning and managing digital legacies

CJ Bellamy, MV Arnold, MR Gibbs, B Nansen, T Kohn

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Life beyond the timeline: creating and curating a digital legacy

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