Death and Digital Media

<p>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.</p>