Haunting Hands: Mobile Media Practices and Loss

by Kathleen M. Cumiskey and Larissa Hjorth

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190634987
• ISBN13: 9780190634988
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.1"