The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Virtual cemeteries
Gabel, T. 2016
‘Cheating death via self-immortalization: the potential of consumption-laden online memorialization to extend and link selves beyond (physical) death’, in S. Dobscha (ed.) Death in a Consumer Culture, London: Routledge, 137-154.
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Gibson, M. 2017
‘Grievable lives: avatars, memorials and ‘family plots’ in Second Life, Mortality, 22:3, 224-39.
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Kubiak, A. 2009
‘The social memorialisation of death on the Web’ in M. Rotar, V. Tudor Roşu & H. Frisby (eds) Proceedings of the Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe, Cluj-Napoca: Accent, 121-128.
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Nansen, B., Arnold, M., Gibbs, M. & Kohn, T. 2014
‘The restless dead in the digital cemetery’, in C. M. Moreman & A. D. Lewis (eds) Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age, Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 111-124.
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Roberts, P. 1999
‘Tangible sorrow, virtual tributes: cemeteries in cyberspace’ in B. de Vries (ed.) End of Life Issues: Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Perspectives, New York: Springer.
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Roberts, P. & Vidal, L. 2000
‘Perpetual care in cyberspace: a portrait of memorials on the Web’, OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying, 40:4, 47-70.
