Call for papers
Digital technologies
of communication constitute increasingly omnipresent technologies of life as
well as death that structure contemporary forms of sociability, flows of affect
and meaning-making.
Following the successful first Death Online Research Symposium at the
University of Durham, which marked the formation of the network, the second
two-day symposium to be held at Kingston University London in August 17th-18th
2015 will consolidate the links between existing and new members of the network
and provide opportunities for the discussion of ongoing and new orientations in
the interdisciplinary field of death online.
The meeting will explore how we invest death-related practices with
meaning in digital convergent media, social media artifacts and networks with a
focus on familiar, reconfigured and emergent types of content, contexts, new
(mass media) audiences, usage patterns, and embodied forms of experience and
expression.
We
invite abstracts for oral presentations of recent or ongoing research
addressing any of the following themes:
- digitally
mediated dying and narrative
- digitally
mediated grieving and memorialising
- digitally
mediated mourning and flows of affect
- death
online and embodied experience
- digital
afterlife, post-mortem identity and digital legacy
- technological
developments in the death care industry
In
addition, we welcome expressions of interest for the screening of short films
or the performance of creative pieces related to the themes of the symposium. All
submissions will be peer-reviewed, and we envisage publication of selected full
papers in a special issue of an academic journal in the field as well as a
collection of writing from the symposium in an open-access online platform.
Important
information
Submission
format: 300 word abstract
Submission
deadline: March 20th, 2015
All
submissions and enquiries should be submitted to: deathonline2@gmail.com
marked
“Death Online Symposium Submission” in the subject field. Please include full
contact info (author name, university affiliation and email address) in the
submission. Submissions will be anonymised by the organisers before review.
Review
Committee
Dr
Korina Giaxoglou, Kingston University, London
Stacey
Pitsillides, University of Greenwich, London
Associate
Professor Lisbeth Klastrup, IT-University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Associate Professor Stine Gotved, IT-University of
Copenhagen, Denmark
Associate Professor Dorthe Refslund Christensen,
University of Aarhus, Denmark
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