Haunting Hands

Haunting Hands looks closely at the consequences of digital media''s ubiquitous presence in our lives in particular the representing sharing and remembering of loss. From Facebook tribute pages during public disasters to the lingering digital traces on a smartphone of the deceased the digital is both extending earlier memorial practices and creating new ways in which death and loss manifest themselves. The ubiquity of digital specters is particularly evident in mobile media spanning smartphones iPads iPhones or tablets. Mobile media entangle various forms of social online and digital media in specific ways that are both intimate and public and yet the use of mobile media in contexts of loss has been relatively overlooked. Haunting Hands seeks to address this growing and important area by helping us to understand the relationship between life death and our digital after-lives.