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Living with the dead: emergent post-mortem digital curation and creation practices

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Living with the dead: emergent post-mortem digital curation and creation practices. / Ellis Gray, Selina; Coulton, Paul.
Digital legacy and interaction: post-mortem issues. ed. / Cristiano Maciel; Vinícius Carvalho Pereira. Berlin: Springer, 2013. (Human–Computer Interaction Series).

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Harvard

Ellis Gray, S & Coulton, P 2013, Living with the dead: emergent post-mortem digital curation and creation practices. in C Maciel & V Carvalho Pereira (eds), Digital legacy and interaction: post-mortem issues. Human–Computer Interaction Series, Springer, Berlin. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01631-3_2

APA

Ellis Gray, S., & Coulton, P. (2013). Living with the dead: emergent post-mortem digital curation and creation practices. In C. Maciel, & V. Carvalho Pereira (Eds.), Digital legacy and interaction: post-mortem issues (Human–Computer Interaction Series). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01631-3_2

Vancouver

Ellis Gray S, Coulton P. Living with the dead: emergent post-mortem digital curation and creation practices. In Maciel C, Carvalho Pereira V, editors, Digital legacy and interaction: post-mortem issues. Berlin: Springer. 2013. (Human–Computer Interaction Series). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-01631-3_2

Author

Ellis Gray, Selina ; Coulton, Paul. / Living with the dead : emergent post-mortem digital curation and creation practices. Digital legacy and interaction: post-mortem issues. editor / Cristiano Maciel ; Vinícius Carvalho Pereira. Berlin : Springer, 2013. (Human–Computer Interaction Series).

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