Publications

Selected publications of our consortium.

Below are some examples to represent our research findings.
Selected publications

Douglas D. Afterword: Play, Personhood and Digital Mortality. Social Sciences. 2024; 13(8): 384. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13080384 

Christensen Dorthe R., and Sumiala J. Introducing the Special Issue Digital Death: Transforming Rituals, History, and the Afterlife. Social Sciences. 2024; 13(7): 346. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13070346

Harju AA. Theorising Digital Afterlife as Techno-Affective Assemblage: On Relationality, Materiality, and the Affective Potential of Data. Social Sciences. 2024; 13(4):227. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13040227

O’Connor M. Grief Universalism: A Perennial Problem Pattern Returning in Digital Grief Studies? Social Sciences. 2024; 13(4):208. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13040208

Sumiala J, Jacobsen MH. Digital Death and Spectacular Death. Social Sciences. 2024; 13(2):101. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13020101

Nowaczyk-Basińska K, Kiel P. Exploring the Immortological Imagination: Advocating for a Sociology of Immortality. Social Sciences. 2024; 13(2):83. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13020083

Toplean A. Global Digital Death and Glocal Dying: Theoretical Challenges and Possible Research Directions. Glocalism. 2024; (1). https://doi.org/10.54103/gjcpi.2023.1.22342

Toplean A. Socio-Phenomenological Reflections on What Digital Death Brings and Denies in Terms of Relational Experiences to Orthodox Romanians. Social Sciences. 2023; 12(12):686. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12120686

Altaratz D, Morse T. Digital Séance: Fabricated Encounters with the Dead. Social Sciences. 2023; 12(11):635. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12110635

Harju AA, Huhtamäki J. Streaming Death: Terrorist Violence, Post-death Data and the Digital Afterlife of Difficult Death. In S. Coleclough, B. Michael-Fox & R. Visser (Eds.), Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture 2023; 26: 53-68. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40732-1_4

Sumiala J, Death, Spirituality, and Digital Afterlife. In Cohen, Y. & P. A. Soukup (Eds.), The Handbook on Religion and Communication 2023; 7: 399-413. Wiley Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119671619.ch26

Digital Death Special Issue

Digital Death: Transforming History, Rituals and Afterlife – the Special Issue of Social Sciences aims to shape a joint foundation for the study of digital death (1) by exploring the interrelations of death and the digital and reflecting on the various formations these interrelations might have for the present day society and (2) by reflecting on the challenges of studying digital death as an interdisciplinary research field. The ambition of this Special Issue is to become an authoritative contribution to the field and to make an essential reading for students and fellow researchers in this rising research area.

The Special Issue will include texts that are theoretical, empirical, and/or reflective. The authors have been invited and picked by the editors