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RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
-BOOK OF ABSTRACTS-
HETEROTOPIC RELATIONS
BETWEEN MEDIA AND
MATERIALITY
IN CHILDRENS ONLINE
MEMORIALS AND ON
CHILDRENS GRAVES
SOCIAL MEDIA
AND THE ENGLISH DEATH
Daniel Miller
University College London, UK
LIVING DIGITALLY
Wendy Moncur
University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
ONLINE EMOTION
REGULATION: WHY THE
KIND OF LOSS DOES (NOT)
MATTER IN COPING IN
ONLINE BEREAVEMENT
Katrin Dveling
University of Leipzig
WE DO IT TO KEEP
HIM ALIVE: THE USE
OF FACEBOOK IN THE
AFTERMATH OF A SUICIDE
Jo Bell & Louis Bailey
University of Hull
TECHNOLOGICAL
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE
DEATH INDUSTRY
www.safebeyond.com
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Vered Shavit
Independent Researcher and DigitalDust Blogger
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2. An active audience-participation-based
roundtable session aimed at sharing existing
solutions and suggesting new ones (30 minutes).
PRACTICES OF DEATH,
DYING AND MOURNING
ONLINE
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NETWORKED EMPATHY
AND THE ART OF DYING.
BLOGGING WITH, AND
ABOUT, CANCER
Andria Martins
University of Bath
Yvonne Andersson
Stockholm University
UN-CONTROLLED PRESENCE:
POST-MORTEM DIGITAL
INTERACTION
Paula Kiel
London School of Economics & Political Science
#RIPROBINWILLIAMS
DIGITAL MEMORIALS AS
MEDIATORS OF A LIVED
LIFE
Anu Harju
Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki,
Finland
A DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGY:
NAVIGATING THE POSTMORTEM
Ariana Mouyiaris
Independent researcher
THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN
INTERACTIVE LEARNING
TOOL ON DIGITAL REMAINS
FOR THE BEREAVEMENT
SUPPORT COMMUNITY
Mrna O Connor
University of Nottingham
ON SHOW
MEDIUMSHIP/COMMUNICATING
Tal Alperstein and Maayan Boni
Independent Artists
FLYING LAND
Susana Gmez Larraaga
Independent Artist
DR KORINA GIAXOGLOU
Dr Korina Giaxoglou is Senior Lecturer in English
Language and Communication at the Department of
Linguistics and Languages of Kingston University
London. Her research lies at the interface of
linguistic anthropology, sociocultural linguistics
and the sociolinguistics of narrative with a
special interest in verbal art poetics, discourse
entextualization, narratives of loss and mourning
and digital sharing practices. Her PhD thesis
forges an analytical framework for the study of
lament as narrative, while her current research
focuses on discourse practices of mourning in social
media, digital stories of grief and the politics of
hashtag mourning. Her work has been published in
Special Issues of peer-reviewed journals, including
Pragmatics, Thanatos, New Review of Hypermedia and
Multimedia and Discourse, Context and Media. She
is currently writing a monograph on Narratives of
Loss.
Contact details:
Korina.Giaxoglou@kingston.ac.uk
@anthrostream
STACEY PITSILLIDES
Stacey Pitsillides is a PhD candidate in Design at
Goldsmiths, University of London. Her PhD topic
considers creative responses to the digital archive
framed through the question of what happens to
our data after we die? (For further information on
this please see www.digitaldeath.eu). Her research
interests include Digital Death, Digital Identity
and Memory, Collaboration, Personal Archiving
and Digital Heritage. She is also a Lecturer in
Design in the Creative Professions and Digital
Arts Department at the University of Greenwich,
a freelance writer/ consultant for Stromatolite
Design Research Lab and has been the co-facilitator
of three unconference events discussing issues of
death and digitality.
Contact details:
S.O.Pitsillides@greenwich.ac.uk
@RestInPixels
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Special thanks to:
Stine Gotved, founder of the International Death
Online Research Network for her unfailing support
and enthusiasm in this years symposium organisation
Lucy Williams, Marketing & Events Officer,
Kingston University London for her invaluable
assistance in the organization of this conference
Hannah Brown, Alyssa Hurtig, and Magdaleine
Mbonimana, students in Linguistics & Languages, for
volunteering their time as conference assistants.
SafeBeyond for sponsoring the conference
reception
Kingston University, the School of Humanities
and the Department of Linguistics & Languages for
hosting the symposium