Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Digital Life of Grief

Online Mourning in the Age of Hashtags, Algorithms, and Social Media

Av Katrin Gerber, Larissa Hjorth, Crystal Abidin

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This book investigates how mourning is transformed in the digital age, where grief is mediated by algorithms, circulated through hashtags, and shaped by the economies of social media platforms.This timely edited collection explores the rise of digital mourning practices, from TikTok memorials and grief influencers to the politicisation of loss in activist movements. Through a platform- centric lens, the book examines how contemporary grief unfolds publicly, performatively, and often unequally in online spaces. This collection brings together interdisciplinary scholarship, using methods including digital ethnography, visual analysis, and platform critique to reveal the architectures that govern digital mourning. It shows how platform logics determine whose grief is amplified and whose is erased, how moderation policies impact the persistence of loss online, and how mourning is entangled with attention economies, digital labour, and resistance. Readers will gain a deeper understanding of how digital spaces both enable and constrain emotional expression, community care, and practices of remembrance during times of grief. This book will be essential reading for scholars across media and communication studies, death studies, sociology, anthropology, and psychology. It offers conceptual and methodological tools to engage critically with grief’s digital turn, addressing questions of visibility, performance, politics, and platform governance. As mourning becomes increasingly public, networked, and algorithmically structured, this book provides a necessary account of how grief is being reshaped in a rapidly changing media landscape.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2026-08-20
Mått: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt: 300 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 166
Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN: 9781041195399

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Katrin Gerber is an end-of-life research fellow with a PhD in psychology at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research explores the intersection of creative methods, mental health, and death studies, with current focus on digital media and AI in grief.Larissa Hjorth is a digital ethnographer, socially engaged artist, and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. With nearly three decades of experience in mobile media research, she has published extensively on intergenerational connection, intimacy, play, ageing, loss, and death in digital contexts. Find out more about her Future Fellowship on www.themourningafter.net.Crystal Abidin is a digital anthropologist of vernacular internet cultures, especially in the Asia Pacific region. She is Director of the Influencer Ethnography Research Lab and Professor of Internet Studies at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. Crystal has published numerous books on influencer cultures and social media platforms. Reach her at wishcrys.com.

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"This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand how social media shapes grief! By paying attention to the algorithms, platforms and infrastructures, it takes readers on an intriguing journey into the depths of human emotions and their entanglement with technology. The editors have crafted a fascinating, interdisciplinary and up-to-date collection that will expand our collective understanding of cross-platform grievability."Associate Professor Stacey Pitsilides, School of Design, Northumbria University

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