2nd international death online research symposium 2015
DESCRIPTION
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, the second two-day symposium will be held at Kingston University London in August 17th-18th 2015. It 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.TRANSCRIPT
KINGSTON UNIVERSITY LONDON
9:00-9:30 Registration: Tea & Coffee RM: JG4002
9:30-10.00 Welcome RM: JG4002
10:00-11:00 Keynote Lecture
Heterotopic relations between media and materiality in children’s online memorials and on children’s graves Dorthe Reflsund Christensen (University of Aarhus) & Kjetil Sandvik (University of Copenhagen)
RM: JG4002
MINI-BREAK
11:00-13:00 Panel Session 1: (Re)mediating death and bereavement
Chair: Stacey Pitsillides RM: JG4002
11:00-11:20
11:20-11:40
11:40-12:00
12:05-12:25
12:25-12:45
12:45-13:05
Online Emotion Regulation. Why the kind of loss does (not) matter in coping in online bereavementKatrin Doveling (University of Leipzig)
Built and received identities in virtual memorialsAnna Haverinen (University of Turku)
Bereaved parents’ online grief communities: de-tabooing practices of grief-ghettosYlva Hard (Gothenburg University) Dick Kasperowski (Gothenburg University) Kjetil Sandvik (University of Copenhagen) Dorthe Reflsund Christensen (University of Aarhus)
MINI-BREAK
‘We do it to keep him alive’: The use of Facebook in the aftermath of a suicideJo Bell (University of Hull) & Louis Bailey (University of Hull)
Mourning in bits and stone: understanding the materiality, spatiality and temporality of digitally augmented memorial sitesJakob Sabra & H.J. Andersen (Aalborg University)
DISCUSSION
13:00-14:00 Lunch RM: JG4002
On Show: An interactive learning tool on digital remains for the bereavement support community Mórna O’Connor (University of Nottingham)
14:00-15:30 Panel Session 2: Technological developments in the death industry
Chair: Anna Haverinen RM: JG3004
14:00-14:20
14:20-14:50
14:50-15:10
15:10-15:30
The Living Dead? The augmentation of graveyards, memorials and monumentsPhilip Wane (Nottingham Trent University)
Designing for future loss: new digital memorials in DenmarkStine Gotved (IT University of Copenhagen)
Boarding a new journey Moran Zur (SafeBeyond)
DISCUSSION
15:30-16:30 RM: 3004 Roundtable Discussion Digital Death & Legacy: what next? Vered Shavit (Digital Dust Blogger and independent researcher)
16:30-17:00 RM: 4002Performance: Mediumship/Communicating Tal Alperstein and Maayan Boni (Independent Artists)
17:00 Reception: Sponsored by SafeBeyond RM: 4002
On Show: Flying Land Susana Gómez Larrañaga (Independent artist
Day 1 | Monday 17th August Day 2 | Tueaday 18th August
10:00-10:30 Tea & Coffee RM: 0003
10:30-11:30 Keynote Lecture RM: 0003 Social Media and the English Death Daniel Miller (University College London)
MINI-BREAK
11:30-13:30 Panel Session 3: Practices of death, dying and mourning online
Chair: Korina Giaxoglou RM: 0003
11:30-11:50
11:50-12:10
12:10-12:30
12:35-12:55
12:55-13:15
13:15-13:35
Discussing death and dying on Facebook while watching the virtual wake of a strangerAndréia Martins (University of Bath)
Networked empathy and the art of dying. Blogging with and about cancerYvonne Andersson (Stockholm University)
Un-controlled presence: post-mortem digital interactionPaula Kiel (London School of Economics & Political Science)
MINI-BREAK
RIP Robin Williams - digital memorials as mediators of a ‘lived life’Anu Harju (Aalto University)
A digital archaeology: navigating the post-mortem Ariana Mouyiaris (Independent Researcher)
DISCUSSION
13:35-14:35 Lunch RM: JG3014
On Show: Thieves and Swindlers are not allowed in paradiseJasmine Johnson
14:35-15:35 Keynote Lecture RM: JG0003 Living DigitallyWendy Moncur (University of Dundee)
MINI-BREAK
15:35-17:00 Panel Session 4: Digital afterlife and digital legacy
Chair: Jo Bell RM: JG3014
15:35-15:55
15:55-16:15
16:15-16:35
16:35-17:00
Remains in the System: recounting the lives of data in mourningSelina Ellis Gray (Lancaster University)
Erasure and the datafied self Audrey Samson (City University of Hong Kong)
The Media End: The Digital Afterlife and the Ending of Social Media – Contours of our Digital ThrownessAmanda Lagerkvist (Stockholm University)
DISCUSSION
17:00-17:30 Closing remarks and next steps RM: JG3014
END OF SYMPOSIUM
19:00 Conference Dinner The Grove, Surbiton