Haunting Hands: Mobile Media Practices and Loss

Haunting Hands: Mobile Media Practices and Loss
ISBN-10
0190634995
ISBN-13
9780190634995
Category
Social Science
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2017-06-23
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Authors
Larissa Hjorth, Kathleen M. Cumiskey

Description

Haunting Hands looks closely at the consequences of digital media's ubiquitous presence in our lives, in particular the representing, sharing, and remembering of loss. From Facebook tribute pages during public disasters to the lingering digital traces on a smartphone of the deceased, the digital is both extending earlier memorial practices and creating new ways in which death and loss manifest themselves. The ubiquity of digital specters is particularly evident in mobile media spanning smartphones, iPads, iPhones, or tablets. Mobile media entangle various forms of social, online and digital media in specific ways that are both intimate and public, and yet the use of mobile media in contexts of loss has been relatively overlooked. Haunting Hands seeks to address this growing and important area by helping us to understand the relationship between life, death, and our digital after-lives.

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