[Air-L] Call for Abstracts: Death, mourning and the internet (Thanatos vol. 3 1/2014)
chris badowski
chrisbadowski at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 21 19:53:02 PST 2013
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-cemetery/
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
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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
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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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