Death and Digital Media - 9781138917958

Death and Digital Media 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 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. It is key reading for students and scholars in these disciplines, as well as for professionals working in bereavement support capacities.

• | Author: Michael Arnold, James Meese
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Nov 27, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 178 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138917958
• | ISBN-13: 9781138917958