[Air-L] CfP: Futures of Digital Death: Mobilities of Loss and Commemoration

Selina Ellis Gray selina at digitaloss.net
Thu Mar 2 22:57:59 PST 2017


Death Studies Issue Call For Papers-
'Futures of Digital Death: Mobilities of Loss and Commemoration'. Deadline:
29th September 2017

As our lives and death become increasingly entangled within the digital, a
new strand of research has emerged, exploring the opportunities and
tensions that technologies can bring within the space of death, dying, and
existential concern. A dominant focus has been on exploring and designing
technologies supporting death-centric practices around remembrance of loved
ones or inheritance of digital artifacts. However, less attention has been
paid to how people are actively engaging in curating such data in both the
physical and digital space for greater personal value. Ways in which we
deal with digital selves, the body and its remains, the memorialization of
lost ones, and the spatio-temporal and social context surrounding such
practices have shifted the way in which we engage with death, from
prescribed and formal to more dynamic, flexible and personally meaningful.
This leads to a new range of research questions that require a genuinely
interdisciplinary approach.

This special issue focuses on the exploration of these emerging practices.
We invite contributions that bring analytical, critical, practice-based and
creative insights to the use, design and development of technologies
entangled at the end of life. Theoretical, empirical, practical and design
or art-based research and approaches are welcome. Themes may include:

   - Mobilities of death, loss and commemoration
   - The digital economies of death, dying, commemoration and loss
   - Dying online or digital mediations of death
   - Personalization and hybridization of rituals, digital memorialization,
   mourning practices
   - Digital afterlives, agency and the social presence of the dead
   - Digital remains, digital legacy, peri- or post mortem data
   - The multiple physical, informational, imaginative mobilities of death,
   loss and memory
   - The multiplying temporalities of practices, memories, experiences
   - Methodological considerations, e.g. ethics, privacy, value sensitive
   design
   - Methodological orientation to futures - e.g. use of utopia as method,
   scenarios, predictions, visions.

For full details please visit:-
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/beh/futures-digital-death

Warmest,
Dr Selina Ellis-Gray

@nina_ellis
www.digitaloss.net
www.researchgate.net/profile/Selina_Ellis_Gray



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