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Haunting Hands
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Description| Publisher | Oxford University Press USA |
| Author(s) | Kathleen M. Cumiskey / Larissa Hjorth |
| Subtitle | Mobile Media Practices and Loss |
| Published | 12th October 2017 |
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Mobile Media Practices and Loss
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 particularlyevident 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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