[Air-L] Call for Abstracts: Death, mourning and the internet (Thanatos vol. 3 1/2014)

Stine Gotved gotved at itu.dk
Fri Nov 22 00:35:48 PST 2013


Very interesting indeed!
The topic is blooming these days, and the research network Death Online is
only a few days from a CFP for a symposium in April (more info on
www.deathonlineresearch.net).
Let's face death together!
:)
Stine

Stine Gotved, The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

On 22/11/13 04.53, "chris badowski" <chrisbadowski at yahoo.com> wrote:

>It's very interesting that this Call comes just as I found a news article
>today on this very topic:
>
>Does Facebook need a cemetery?
>http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57613339-71/does-facebook-need-a-cemeter
>y/
>
>
>
>Christine Badowski
>North Central College
>MALS 2014 expected
>Thesis: "The Virtual Line in the Sand: Consequences of New Media on
>College Admissions and Job Applications of Digital Natives"
>
>http://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisbadowski
>http://chicagopublicart.blogspot.com
>@chrisbadowski
>
>--------------------------------------------
>On Thu, 11/21/13, Anna E. Haverinen <aehaverinen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Subject: [Air-L] Call for Abstracts: Death, mourning and the internet
>(Thanatos vol. 3 1/2014)
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Date: Thursday, November 21, 2013, 12:21 AM
> 
> Sorry for cross posting, please
> share!
> 
> Best,
> 
> Anna Haverinen
> 
> Digital Culture, University of Turku, Finland
> 
> _____________
> 
> CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Thanatos vol. 3 1/2014
> 
> Theme issue: Death, mourning and the internet
> 
> Computer and mobile technologies have now provided a new
> space and medium
> to connect and share at the time of loss and bereavement.
> People seek out
> for places of ritualised actions, such as lighting candles,
> writing
> eulogies, visit memorials during anniversaries and feeling
> the sense of
> community at the time of loss. Internet provides a new space
> for rituals,
> feeling of co-presence and communality, where memorials are
> being erected
> in various online environments.
> 
> This new way of expressing mourning and honoring are rising
> interesting
> questions about value, family, identity, friendship and
> love. Who is
> allowed to create a virtual memorial? Who has access and
> ownership to the
> material we leave online? Is it only the young people, the
> Web 2.0
> generation,and the digital natives, who are appropriating
> internet
> technology to cope with loss and bereavement? What are the
> problems of
> using the internet in hospice care? How virtuality, death
> and/or the after
> world are being conceptualised through the Web?
> 
> Thanatos (www.thanatos-journal.com) is a peer-reviewed,
> multi-disciplinary
> and a scientific webjournal published by the Finnish Death
> Studies
> Association (www.kuolemantutkimus.com). We publish twice a
> year a journal
> that consists of articles, short and long research reports,
> book reviews,
> columns and seminar reports. The primary publication
> language is Finnish,
> but we do accept manuscripts in English and Swedish as well,
> however, the
> costs of proofreading are the responsibility of the author.
> 
> We now invite abstracts in English, Swedish or Finnish (max
> 400 words) for
> articles (max 8000 words) and research reports (max 5000
> words) from the
> following example themes:
> 
> € Digital afterlife
> 
> € Internet and hospice care
> 
> € Space and spatiality in virtual memorials
> 
> € Identity and virtual memorials
> 
> € Online memorials and heritage
> 
> € Memorials and online gaming
> 
> € Death and Facebook
> 
> € Memorial videos in Youtube (Vimeo etc.)
> 
> € Online funerals
> 
> The above mentioned topics are only examples and we
> encourage you to send
> your own ideas as well. Abstracts are to be sent to
> anna.haverinen at utu.fiby
> 3rd of January 2014.
> 
> Schedule:
> 
> € 3.1.2014: Abstract deadlines (max 400 words)
> 
> € 28.2.2014: Full manuscript deadlines (articles max 8000
> words, research
> reports max 5000 words)
> 
> € 15.4.2014: Writers receive referee and editorial
> comments on their first
> drafts
> 
> € 31.5.2014: Deadline for second drafts
> 
> € June/July: Journal publication
> 
> The head editor of the first issue in 2014 will be doctoral
> student of
> digital culture, Anna Haverinen (M. Phil.), who has studied
> virtual
> memorials and online death rituals extensively since 2007 in
> her thesis
> "Virtual Memorials - death and mourning rituals in online
> environments"
> (Forthcoming, 2014).
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