Call for Articles: Examining the Futures of Digital Death
Submissions are invited for a forthcoming special issue of Death Studies, entitled Futures of Digital Death: Mobilities of Loss and Commemoration.
The special issue will feature articles 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.
Manuscripts must be received by 29 September 2017. Papers will be double-blind peer reviewed by a group of internal and external reviewers led by the editors.
For further information, please read the full call for papers: http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/beh/futures-digital-death
If you are interested in contributing to this special issue, Death Studies guest editors Monika Büscher, Fiorenza Gamba, Alina Coman, Selina Ellis-Gray, Corina Sas and Miriam Schreiter would love to hear from you.