Haunting Hands

Haunting Hands

by Kathleen M. Cumiskey and Larissa Hjorth
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 23/06/2017

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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.

ISBN:
9780190695071
9780190695071
Category:
Media studies
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
23-06-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Larissa Hjorth

Larissa Hjorth is Distinguished Professor and Director of Design and Creative Practice at RMIT University in Melbourne. She is coauthor of Screen Ecologies (MIT Press).

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