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TY - JOUR
T1 - Futures of Digital Death
T2 - Past, Present and Charting Emerging Research Agenda
AU - Sas, Corina
AU - Schreiter, Miriam
AU - Buscher, Monika
AU - Gamba, Fiorenza
AU - Coman, Alina
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Death Studies on 8/8/2019, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07481187.2019.1647643
PY - 2019/9/1
Y1 - 2019/9/1
N2 - This special issue entitled “Futures of Digital Death: Mobilities of Loss and Commemoration“ explores the topic of digital death and how technologies are reconfigured by and reconfiguring social relationships with the deceased and dying loved ones as well as the larger ecosystem supporting such relationships. This Introduction article starts with an overview of the past research on digital death intended to provide a relevant context for the five papers included in this issue. Then, we reflect on how the current papers or the present research, build on the past and can be used to address existing gaps and to inform future new research directions in order to move the field forward.
AB - This special issue entitled “Futures of Digital Death: Mobilities of Loss and Commemoration“ explores the topic of digital death and how technologies are reconfigured by and reconfiguring social relationships with the deceased and dying loved ones as well as the larger ecosystem supporting such relationships. This Introduction article starts with an overview of the past research on digital death intended to provide a relevant context for the five papers included in this issue. Then, we reflect on how the current papers or the present research, build on the past and can be used to address existing gaps and to inform future new research directions in order to move the field forward.
KW - digital death
KW - loss
KW - grief
KW - rituals
KW - technology
U2 - 10.1080/07481187.2019.1647643
DO - 10.1080/07481187.2019.1647643
M3 - Editorial
VL - 43
SP - 407
EP - 413
JO - Death Studies
JF - Death Studies
SN - 0748-1187
IS - 7
ER -