Death Online Research Symposium

Twitter account of the Death Online Research Symposium

[CyberSecurity CDT @CyberSecCDT]

Last week CDT student Khadiza Laskor presented her paper entitled “Governing Digital Immortality: A Systematic Review” at @DeathOnlineRes #DORS6 at @NorthumbriaUni. Earlier this year our students took part in a Responsible Innovation Challenge around digital immortality.

[Dr Stacey Pitsillides @RestInPixels]

Thanks to our three amazing keynotes ⁦@CarlaSofka⁩ ⁦@micronarrative⁩ ⁦@XAldanaReyes⁩ #DORS6 ⁦@DeathOnlineRes⁩ that’s a wrap! To the whole community for all the rich conversations ❤️❤️ and to my co-host ⁦@tinyhippo1979⁩ for organising this with me! X

[Xavier Aldana Reyes @XAldanaReyes]

Day 3 of the Death Futures conference. I’ve been too absorbed in the papers to take many pictures, but here go a few highlights. @DeathOnlineRes #deathfutures #deathonline

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Finally, we are delighted to welcome today's keynote speaker, Carla Sofka on The Evolution of Thanatechnology: Never in My Wildest Dreams...

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[Death Online Research Symposium @DeathOnlineRes]

Finally, we are delighted to welcome today's keynote speaker, Carla Sofka on The Evolution of Thanatechnology: Never in My Wildest Dreams...

#DORS6

[Death Online Research Symposium @DeathOnlineRes]

Panel 13: Futures of Grief and Post-Death Communication also features:

Grief under digital-age construction by Mórna O’Connor

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Panel 13: Futures of Grief and Post-Death Communication features:

What does an AI know about grief ? by Stine Gotved

Connecting to the dead live on your screen: medium seances and contemporary spiritism on Facebook by Lisbeth Klastrup

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The final panel of #DORS6 is Panel 13: Futures of Grief and Post-Death Communication chaired by Ylva Hård Af Segerstad is underway!

[Dr Edina Harbinja @EdinaRl]

Session 12 #DORS6 is on...listening to other panellists before presenting @MarisaMcV @lilianedwards and my paper on #postmortemprivacy and digitial legacy - a qualitative empirical inquiry resulting from our @LeverhulmeTrust project @privacy_of_dead

[Death Online Research Symposium @DeathOnlineRes]

Panel 12: Digital Legacy in Media and the Law also features:

Post-mortem privacy and digital legacy - a qualitative empirical enquiry by Edina Harbinja, Lilian Edwards & Marisa McVey

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Panel 12: Digital Legacy in Media and the Law also features:

Death and Dignity in the Digital Age: An Examination of Dignity in the Realm of Informational Privacy by Nilou Davoudi

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Panel 12: Digital Legacy in Media and the Law features:

The Reenchantment of the Digital Self and the Rationalization of the Digital Soul in News Coverage of Digital Death by Tim Recuber

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Panel 11: Death Online Through Covid-19 also features:

Assessing the impact of the pandemic on rituals of memorialisation in the UK– a data-driven approach by Eleanor O’Keeffe #DORS6

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Panel 11: Death Online through Covid-19 Chair features:

Death in the second person in the Digital Age - Voices of those who have lost relatives since 2020 in Japan by Akiko ORITA

“FaceTime Farewells: Death and Goodbye’s in Our Brave New World” by Emily B. Campbell

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We have two parallel panels running this morning!

Panel 11: Death Online through Covid-19 chaired by Claire Nally

Panel 12: Digital Legacy in Media and the Law chaired by Tim Hutchings

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The final day of #DORS6 at @NorthumbriaUni is beginning!

[Lou Rogers @louisagrogers]

Had a great time at @DeathOnlineRes and met lots of amazing and interesting people. Hopeful to reconnect next year and explore trans/posthumanism in the fashion space more too…! #dors6 thank you to @RestInPixels in order, too ☠️ 🤖

[Anna Wilde @Another_Shore]

Great job Niamh and thanks to you all for organising. I won't be there tomorrow but I've really enjoyed the conference and meeting people! #DORS6

[Adela Toplean @AdelaToplean]

Our DiDe (Digital Death) project presented in Tallinn at the #digiCHANSE kickoff conference

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Thank you to everyone who attended the second day of #DORS6! It was wonderful to see everyone!

A big thank you to everyone who spoke or chaired a panel!

On to the final day tomorrow!