Haunting hands : mobile media practices and loss /
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| Author / Creator: | Cumiskey, Kathleen M., 1970- author. |
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| Imprint: | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017] |
| Description: | xii, 228 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in mobile communication Studies in mobile communication. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11292047 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 228 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190634988 0190634987 9780190634971 0190634979 |