Death and Digital Media

<p><em>Death and Digital Media</em> 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. It is key reading for students and scholars in these disciplines as well as for professionals working in bereavement support capacities.</p>