What do recent shifts in mortuary practice and memorialization reveal about larger changes in american culture and society?

Based on themes found in the data, we propose a new model for complicated grief in the digital age, consisting of the following phases:

— specifically, she explores the creation of new forms of agency and embodiment of the dead by analyzing how inherited digital and online collections and memorials unfold their meaning.

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We then present a set of design considerations for designers seeking to create tools for complicated grievers navigating their unique grief journeys.

— drawing on data from the online memorial site forevermissed. com, it examines why online memorials are increasingly being used to commemorate the deceased instead of the more traditional genre.

Data from three studies on web memorialization (descriptions of web memorials, guestbook entries, and a survey of web memorial authors) are used to examine three aspects of bereavement community:

Drawing on data from the online memorial site forevermissed. com, it examines why online memorials are increasingly being used to commemorate the deceased instead of the more traditional genre of the obituary.

How we remember the dead by their digital afterlives.

— a review of moreman and lewis's interdisciplinary edited collection exploring death on social media, online memorialization, and digital legacies.

— this article explores transformations in the american way of death from the victorian period to the present.

Continuing bonds with the dead, strengthening existing relationships among the living, and creating new communities of the bereaved in cyberspace.

— cann is the author of “virtual afterlives:

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