DeathTech Research Team
The DeathTech Research Team is a group of anthropologists, social scientists and human-computer interaction specialists based at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. The team have been studying questions at the intersection of death, technology, and society for more than a decade.
Research Projects
The DeathTech Research Team is currently undertaking two major projects:
- Disposal of the Dead: Beyond Burial and Cremation investigates emerging alternatives to and elaborations upon traditional methods of body disposal. Disposal of the Dead is a three-year project funded by the Australian Research Council.
- The Future Cemetery investigates the potential for new technologies to enhance the public’s experience of the cemetery. The Future Cemetery is a three-year project funded by the Australian Research Council along with the Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust as Linkage Partner.
Additionally, the team is currently undertaking a rapid-response research project on Remote, Restricted and Redesigned: Memorialisation practices and the COVID-19 pandemic, supported by seed funding from The University of Melbourne.
Publications
To date, the DeathTech Research Team has produced two books (Death and Digital Media and Residues of Death: Disposal Reconfigured) and numerous other academic and popular publications that explore how death, commemoration and mourning have begun to change in response to the shifting technological and social pressures of the 21st century.
Latest News
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The disruption and regeneration of death during the Covid-19 pandemic
Call for Papers: Special Issue for Anthropology Quarterly Anthropology has long framed death as a crisis, both within an individual’s life trajectory and for the existential continuity of the community. In the tradition of scholarship following Hertz (1960), mortuary and funerary rituals are framed as a site of collective action mounted in response to crisis. They are transformative and curative in their …
1 February 2021 -
Art, Death and Disposal: artist open call announcement
DeathTech’s open call to artists received 34 innovative and thoughtful proposals - thank you to all of those who so generously responded to the call. We are excited to announce the following artists have been commissioned from the shortlist, and the team is looking forward to working with all: Georgia Banks https://www.georgiabanks.info/work Catherine Bell https://suttongallery.com.au/artists/catherine-bell/ Farnaz Dadfar https://farnazdadfar.com Eric Jong http://www.ericjong.com.au/art Chantelle Mitchell and Jaxon Waterhouse https://ecologicalgyretheory.com/About Laura …
13 November 2020 -
Mystifying Melbourne: Anthropologist Dr Hannah Gould On The DeathTech Research of bringing new life to Cemeteries
Aisha from RRR Radio chats with Melbourne University anthropologist Dr Hannah Gould about the DeathTech research of bringing new life to cemeteries. They discuss augmented realities, QR codes on gravestones, and eco-friendly burials. Listen to the full programme here
5 November 2020 -
Digging Deep into Death Technology on Studio 10
Dr Hannah Gould spoke to Studio 10 about new and emerging alternatives to burial and cremation. "Let's talk about death!" Digging Deep Into Death Technology - Hannah Gould - Studio 10Download The segment aired on Wednesday the 21st of October. Watch it on 10play.com.au or Facebook.
24 October 2020 -
The Future Cemetery: Release of the first annual Survey and Workshop Reports
The DeathTech team are pleased to present two new reports from our Future Cemetery Research Project. This project is funded by The Australian Research Council (LP180100757) with the support of our Linkage Partners, The Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust (GMCT). The Future Cemetery project aims to identify and critically assess the potential of innovative technologies to enhance the public’s experience of …
9 October 2020 -
A fertile time for death disruptors: ‘People are finding meaning in these new rituals’
A new article in The Guardian looks at the new players and new practices in death care that have attained greater prominence under the restrictions of Covid-19. DeathTech team member Samuel Holleran provides an explanation of some of these "death disruptors": They're coming into a locked-in industry that has all sorts of received traditions that go back to before the second world …
21 September 2020 -
How technology is changing the way we grieve
This week, several members of the DeathTech Research Team were featured in the ABC Radio National programme, God Forbid. Listen here. Is it possible to be biologically dead, but socially alive? What would that entail? On God Forbid, James and panel find out more about the digital afterlife. In this episode: Ever logged into Facebook and received a notification about someone – …
6 September 2020 -
OPEN CALL: Art, Death and Disposal
During a time of rapid change and global crisis, the interdisciplinary DeathTech team at the University of Melbourne is researching the intersection of death, technology and society. We are exploring practices used to dispose of the deceased, from burial and cremation to newly emerging techniques and designs for the treatment of the dead, for example high-rise cemeteries, water cremation and …
24 June 2020
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The disruption and regeneration of death during the Covid-19 pandemic
Call for Papers: Special Issue for Anthropology Quarterly Anthropology has long framed death as a crisis, both within an individual’s life trajectory and for the existential continuity of the community. In the tradition of scholarship following Hertz (1960), mortuary and funerary rituals are framed as a site of collective action mounted in response to crisis. They are transformative and curative in their …
1 February 2021 News -
Art, Death and Disposal: artist open call announcement
DeathTech’s open call to artists received 34 innovative and thoughtful proposals - thank you to all of those who so generously responded to the call. We are excited to announce the following artists have been commissioned from the shortlist, and the team is looking forward to working with all: Georgia Banks https://www.georgiabanks.info/work Catherine Bell https://suttongallery.com.au/artists/catherine-bell/ Farnaz Dadfar https://farnazdadfar.com Eric Jong http://www.ericjong.com.au/art Chantelle Mitchell and Jaxon Waterhouse https://ecologicalgyretheory.com/About Laura …
13 November 2020 News -
Mystifying Melbourne: Anthropologist Dr Hannah Gould On The DeathTech Research of bringing new life to Cemeteries
Aisha from RRR Radio chats with Melbourne University anthropologist Dr Hannah Gould about the DeathTech research of bringing new life to cemeteries. They discuss augmented realities, QR codes on gravestones, and eco-friendly burials. Listen to the full programme here
5 November 2020 News -
Digging Deep into Death Technology on Studio 10
Dr Hannah Gould spoke to Studio 10 about new and emerging alternatives to burial and cremation. "Let's talk about death!" Digging Deep Into Death Technology - Hannah Gould - Studio 10Download The segment aired on Wednesday the 21st of October. Watch it on 10play.com.au or Facebook.
24 October 2020 News -
The Future Cemetery: Release of the first annual Survey and Workshop Reports
The DeathTech team are pleased to present two new reports from our Future Cemetery Research Project. This project is funded by The Australian Research Council (LP180100757) with the support of our Linkage Partners, The Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust (GMCT). The Future Cemetery project aims to identify and critically assess the potential of innovative technologies to enhance the public’s experience of …
9 October 2020 News -
A fertile time for death disruptors: ‘People are finding meaning in these new rituals’
A new article in The Guardian looks at the new players and new practices in death care that have attained greater prominence under the restrictions of Covid-19. DeathTech team member Samuel Holleran provides an explanation of some of these "death disruptors": They're coming into a locked-in industry that has all sorts of received traditions that go back to before the second world …
21 September 2020 News -
How technology is changing the way we grieve
This week, several members of the DeathTech Research Team were featured in the ABC Radio National programme, God Forbid. Listen here. Is it possible to be biologically dead, but socially alive? What would that entail? On God Forbid, James and panel find out more about the digital afterlife. In this episode: Ever logged into Facebook and received a notification about someone – …
6 September 2020 News -
OPEN CALL: Art, Death and Disposal
During a time of rapid change and global crisis, the interdisciplinary DeathTech team at the University of Melbourne is researching the intersection of death, technology and society. We are exploring practices used to dispose of the deceased, from burial and cremation to newly emerging techniques and designs for the treatment of the dead, for example high-rise cemeteries, water cremation and …
24 June 2020 News -
Remote, Restricted, and Redesigned: Funerals in the time of Coronavirus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5efLmQdpio In June 2020, the DeathTech Research Team hosted a virtual roundtable discussion with death scholars and practitioners in Australia, the UK and the US, to share how funerals have changed under the coronavirus pandemic and to discuss what this might mean for the future of death. The COVID-19 pandemic not only represents a serious threat to human life and livelihoods, …
23 June 2020 covid-19, Gould... -
ネット葬式 or 入場制限? – The Big Issue Japan
Our article for The Conversation, “Small funerals, online memorials and grieving from afar: the coronavirus is changing how we care for the dead”, has been translated into Japanese for The Big Issue Japan. DeathTech研究チームから新しい記事が出版しまた。こちらのリンクで読みます。
12 May 2020 covid-19, Funer... -
How loved ones are overcoming funeral restrictions
DeathTech team member Hannah Gould was interviewed for an article in The Canberra Times, exploring how funeral practice is adapting to COVID-19 conditions: There are other ways in which funerals may change permanently, according to Dr Hannah Gould, an anthropologist at the University of Melbourne who studies the rituals of death around the world. “We want to be careful and not make …
26 April 2020 covid-19, Funer... -
Death in a Time of Corona
Help us understand how COVID-19 is changing deathcare, funerals, and memorialisation worldwide by contributing to this collaborative, open research platform. We have established a platform to share accounts of how the COVID-19 pandemic is changing deathcare, including end-of-life and mortuary care, arranging funerals, and ongoing memorialisation. This information is of interest to us as part of research into death and technology …
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Coronavirus has changed death and funerals — but new rituals can help us grieve
A new piece out with ABC News explores the emergence of rituals during the coronavirus pandemic and social distancing restrictions that have transformed funeral practice. DeathTech team member Professor Tamara Kohn said of funerals under coronavirus restrictions: We now need to produce a different kind of intimacy. The full article can be found here.
12 April 2020 covid-19, Funer... -
Small funerals, online memorials and grieving from afar: the coronavirus is changing how we care for the dead
The team has a new article in The Conversation discussing the transformation of death rites in the context of the COVID-19 global pandemic. "The coronavirus is not only affecting the way we live, it’s also dramatically affecting the way we die. In Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that funerals would be limited to a maximum of ten people to limit the spread of …
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CfP Memorial Publics workshop
Memorial Publics - a workshop on innovative research methods and emerging issues in public communication around the dead and their memorials Date: Tuesday 19 May, 9:00am-5:00pm Location: Brisbane Australia, The Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith U Southbank Campus Sponsoring ICA Division: Popular Communication Organisers: Larissa Hjorth (RMIT); Margaret Gibson (Griffith); Bjorn Nansen (Melbourne) Contact: nansenb@unimelb.edu.au Cost: free Website: https://www.icahdq.org/page/2020PrePostconf Description: This one-day pre-conference workshop, supported …
17 December 2019 Nansen, Media, ... -
On Optimism and Death: Public Program for Exhibition @ Margaret Lawrence Gallery
This October, DeathTech Research Team member Tamara Kohn participated in a panel discussion in conjunction with the exhibition Hope Dies Last: Art at the End of Optimism. Hope Dies Last: Art at the End of Optimism is a curated exhibition of Australian and international contemporary art presented across two sites, Gertrude Contemporary and the Margaret Lawrence Gallery at the Victorian College of the Arts. The project focuses on …
19 October 2019 Kohn, Art, Unca...
The DeathTech Research Team is a group of anthropologists, social scientists and human-computer interaction specialists based at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. The team have been studying questions at the intersection of death, technology, and society for more than a decade.
The team is listed in order of proximity to the average mortality rate.

Michael Arnold
Professor, History and Philosophy of Science, the University of Melbourne
Michael Arnold’s on-going research activities lie at the intersection of contemporary technologies and daily life; for example, studies of digital technologies in the domestic context, online memorials and other technologies associated with death, social networking, community informatics, and ethical and normative assessments of technologies.
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Tamara Kohn
Professor of Anthropology, School of Social and Political Sciences, the University of Melbourne
Tamara Kohn’s current research focuses on creative practice, death studies, mobility and leisure, methods and ethics, and the anthropology of the body and senses, based on fieldwork in the US, Japan and Australia.
Web・ORCID

Martin Gibbs
Associate Professor, School of Computing and Information Systems, the University of Melbourne
Martin Gibbs is a member of the Human-Computer Interaction research group. Martin is currently investigating how people use a variety of interactive technologies, such as video games, community networks and mobile phones, for convivial and sociable purposes in a diverse situations (intimate strong-tie relationships, local neighbourhoods, work-based occupational communities, online computer games).
Web・ORCID

Elizabeth Hallam
Associate Professor in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology, Oxford University
Elizabeth Hallam’s research and publications focus on the anthropology of the body; death and dying; material and visual cultures; human anatomy; three-dimensional models, especially in medical education; making and design; mixed-media sculpture; history and anthropology; experimental research with images and texts; fieldwork, archive and museum-based research mainly in the UK, along with recent multi-sited research begun in Australia, Singapore and the USA.
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Bjørn Nansen
Senior Lecturer, Media and Communications, the University of Melbourne
Bjørn Nansen’s research focuses on emerging and marginal forms of digital media use in everyday life, using a mix of ethnographic, participatory and digital methods. His current work explores changing home media infrastructures and environments, children’s mobile media and digital play practices, technologies for death and memorialising, and the digital mediation of sleep.
Web・ORCID

Fraser Allison
ARC Research Fellow, School of Computing and Information Systems, the University of Melbourne
Fraser Allison is a research fellow in the Human-Computer Interaction research group. He studies the design and user experience of technologies for leisure and commemoration, with a focus on natural user interfaces, complex user experiences and the ways in which people draw meaning from technologically mediated activities.
Web・ORCID・Twitter

Hannah Gould
ARC Research Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences, the University of Melbourne
Hannah Gould is a socio-cultural anthropologist working in the areas of death, religion, and material culture. Her research is focused on how the deceased are memorialised and materialised in everyday life, with a regional focus on North-East Asia.
Web・ORCID・Twitter

Samuel Holleran
PhD Student, Media and Communications, the University of Melbourne
Samuel Holleran’s PhD examines public participation in the reimagination of urban burial sites. He is also an interdisciplinary artist and writer whose work examines the power and politics imbued in urban design. In particular, he is interested in the use of everyday objects in cities, like street furniture, parks, and signage. He has worked as an art director, researcher and educator in the field of civically-engaged design with the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) in New York City and the Chair for Architecture & Urban Design at ETH-Zürich.
Twitter・ORCID
Industry Research Partners

Deb Ganderton
CEO, The Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust
Deb has masters’ degrees in Arts and Science, is a qualified foresight practitioner, a member of AICD, IAPP and president of IABC Victoria. Deb is currently the CEO of GMCT, a leading player in the Australian funeral and cemetery sector, who run 19 cemeteries and two sites yet to be developed on Melbourne’s urban fringe. GMCT’s 600 hectares of heritage parklands are visited by almost two million people each year.
Research Collaborators
Disposal of the Dead: Beyond Burial and Cremation
This research project investigates innovative and scalable alternatives to body disposal, such as alkaline hydrolysis, liquid nitrogen, and other thermal processes, and innovative elaborationson burial and cremation, such as natural burial and carbon trading among crematoria at a time when there is a greater awareness of the economic and environmental costs of both burial and cremation. It considers the social, cultural and environmental issues, regulatory challenges, institutional responses, public discourses, personal ethics, and worldviews at stake in the emergence of these disposal technologies. The research asks, how do innovations in these technologies impact on consumers, industry, and broader socio-cultural and metaphysical frameworks for handling death? This project explores the practices and perspectives of designers, death workers, industry intermediaries, consumers and representatives of cultural and religious communities as they respond to, interpret and plan for changing possibilities of bodily disposal.
Disposal of the Dead is a three-year project funded by the Australian Research Council (DP: 180103148)
The Future Cemetery
The contemporary Western cemetery, dedicated to the dead and their memorials, has become more than a pervasive urban landmark. It is also a central site in the emotional lives and cultural histories of local communities. However, this model is now facing crisis, driven by growing environmental concerns, maintenance costs, and an increasingly well-informed public with a complex range of desires for memorialisation.
Around the world, many cemeteries have begun adopting new technologies to improve their visitors’ experiences, reduce their facilities’ environmental footprint, and extend the personalisation of services in response to more diverse community desires. These include the potential for grave location, navigation, and tours, and for digital annotation or augmentation of interment locations. New alternatives to traditional cremation, burial, and mausoleums have also become viable, including resomation (water-based cremation) and natural burial. This project will identify and critically assess the potential of innovative technologies to enhance the public’s experience of the cemetery, diversify service offerings, and strengthen community connections, all in the context of increasingly diverse and rapidly changing social circumstances.
The Future Cemetery is a three-year project funded by the Australian Research Council (grant no: LP180100757) with the Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust as Linkage Partner.
Remote, Restricted and Redesigned: Memorialisation practices and the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic not only represents a serious threat to human life and livelihoods, it has transformed experiences of death, grief, and memorialisation. Social distancing regulations have upended cultural and religious traditions by restricting interaction with the deceased, attendance at funerals, and visitation at cemeteries. Simultaneously, communities have found creative responses to restrictions through new rituals and uses of technology. At the heart of these disruptions and transformations are death care workers, who provide an essential service in the face of uncertainty but are often overlooked in official pandemic responses and media coverage.
This research tackles the problem of how to manage individual and communal expectations of death rites that uphold human decency and tradition, while continuing to protect death care workers under the conditions of a global pandemic and its aftermath. The team will assess the Australian response and formulate recommendations for improvement to funeral practices during and following pandemic, with a view to long-term research. Conducting this research now will ensure that the death care sector will be better equipped to deliver a safe and compassionate response during future disruptive events.
This project is funded by the Arts Collaborative Research Seed Funding Scheme at The University of Melbourne.
To take part in the survey of the death care industry for this project, please click here.
Digital Commemoration
The Internet is not just changing our social lives, it is also changing how we approach death and commemoration. The project provides an extensive analysis of contemporary digital commemoration and a detailed account of the wider social and cultural implications of these practices.
The ‘Digital Commemoration’ project brings together researchers from Anthropology, Human and Computer Interaction (HCI), Social Studies of Technology, and Media and Communications. The project will provide an extensive analysis of contemporary digital commemoration and a detailed account of the wider social and cultural implications of these practices. This research continues our previous work on digital memorialisation and the mediation of death online, which has been supported by research grants from the Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society (IBES) and the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN).
Digital Commemoration was a three-year project funded by the Australian Research Council. For more information, visit the project website.
Books
Arnold, M., Gibbs, M., Kohn, T., Meese, J., & Nansen, B. (eds.). (2018) Death and Digital Media. London: Routledge.
Kohn, T., Nansen, B., Gibbs, M., & van Ryn, L. (eds.). (2019) Residues of Death: Disposal Refigured. London: Routledge.
Public Reports
Allison, F., Gould, H., Arnold, M., Nansen, B., Gibbs, M., and Kohn, T. 2020.The Future Cemetery Survey 2020 [Report]
Gould, H., Allison, F., Arnold, M., Nansen, B., Gibbs, M., and Kohn, T. 2019. The Future Cemetery Workshop 2019
van der Nagel, E., Arnold, M., Nansen, B., Gibbs, M., Kohn, T., Bellamy, C., and Clark, N. (2017) Death and the Internet: Consumer issues for planning and managing digital legacies, 2nd edn, Australian Communications Consumer Action Network, Sydney.
Bellamy, C., Arnold, M., Gibbs, M., Nansen, B. and Kohn, T. (2013) Death and the Internet: Consumer issues for planning and managing digital legacies, Australian Communications Consumer Action Network, Sydney.
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
Nansen, B, O’Donnell, D, Arnold, M, Gibbs, M, and Kohn, T. (2019) ‘Death by Twitter’: Understanding False Death Announcements on Social Media and the Performance of Platform Cultural Capital. First Monday 24(12).
Arnold M, Nansen B, Kohn T, Gibbs M, and Gould, H. (2019) The disposition of the destitute. Parity 32(6): 22.
Gould, H., Kohn, T., & Gibbs, M. (2018) Uploading the Ancestors: Experiments with digital Buddhist altars in contemporary Japan, Death Studies 43(7): 456-465.
Van Ryn, L, Meese, J, Nansen, B, Kohn, T, Arnold, M, and Gibbs, M. (2018) Managing the consumption of death and digital media: the funeral director as market intermediary. Death Studies 43(7): 446-455.
Lambert, A, Nansen, B, and Arnold, M. (2018) Algorithmic Memorial Videos: Contextualising Automated Curation. Memory Studies 11(2): 156-171.
Nansen B., Kohn, T., Arnold M., Van Ryn L., & Gibbs, M. (2017) Social Media in the Funeral Industry: On the Digitization of Grief, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media 61(1): 73-89.
Meese, J., Nansen, B., Kohn, T., Arnold, M., & Gibbs, M. (2015) Posthumous Personhood and the affordances of digital media, Mortality 20(4): 408-420.
Gibbs, M., Meese, J., Arnold, M., Nansen, B., & Carter, M. (2015) #Funeral and Instagram: death, social media, and platform vernacular. Information, Communication & Society 18(3): 255-268.
Graham, C., Arnold, M., Kohn, T., & Gibbs, M. R. (2015) Gravesites and websites: a comparison of memorialisation. Visual Studies, 30(1): 37-53.
Meese, J., Gibbs, M., Carter, M., Arnold, M., Nansen, B., & Kohn, T. (2015) Selfies at Funerals: Mourning and Presencing on Social Media Platforms. International Journal of Communication, 9(14): 1818–1831.
Graham, C., Gibbs, M. and Aceti, L. (eds) (2013) Introduction. The Information Society Special Issue: Death, Afterlife, and Immortality of Bodies and Dat ,29(3): 133–202.
Gibbs M, Bellamy C, Arnold M, Nansen B and Kohn T. (2013) Digital registers and estate planning. Retirement and Estate Planning Bulletin, 16(3): 63-68.
Graham, C., Gibbs, M. and Aceti, L. (2013) Introduction to the Special Issue on the Death, Afterlife, and Immortality of Bodies and Data. The Information Society: An International Journal, 29(3): 133–141.
Gibbs, M., Mori, M., Arnold, M. & Kohn, T. (2012) Tombstones, Uncanny Monuments and Epic Quests: Memorials in World of Warcraft. Game Studies,12(1).
Book Chapters
Van Ryn, L, Nansen, B, and Gibbs, M. (2019) ‘Adapt or Die’: the funeral trade show as a site of institutional anxiety. In Kohn, T., Gibbs, M., Nansen, B, and van Ryn, L (Eds.). Residues of Death: Disposal Refigured. London: Routledge, pp. 37-51.
Hallam, E. and Kohn, T. (2019) Life in Death’s Residues, In Kohn, T., Gibbs, M., Nansen, B, and van Ryn, L (Eds.). Residues of Death: Disposal Refigured. London: Routledge, pp 1-16.
Arnold, M. (2019) Embracing and Distancing the Materiality of Death through Cremation, In Kohn, T., Gibbs, M., Nansen, B, and van Ryn, L (Eds.). Residues of Death: Disposal Refigured. London: Routledge, pp. 124-135.
Kohn, T., Arnold, M., Gibbs, M., Meese, J., & Nansen, B. (2018) The Social Life of the Dead and the Leisured Life of the Living Online, in Leisure and Death: Lively Encounters with Risk, Death, and Dying, edited byKaul, A, and Skinner, J, Boulder: University of Colorado Press.
van Ryn, L., Kohn, T., Nansen, B., Arnold, M., & Gibbs, M. (2017) Researching Death Online. In L. Hjorth, H. Horst, A. Galloway, & G. Bell (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography(pp. 112-120). London: Routledge
Nansen, B., Arnold, M., Gibbs, M., and Kohn, T. (2015) Remembering Zyzz: Distributed Memories on Distributed Networks. In A. Hajek, C. Lohmeier, & C. Pentzold (Eds.), Memory in a Mediated World: Remembrance and Reconstruction(pp. 261-280). London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.
Nansen, B., Arnold, M., Gibbs, M., and Kohn, T. (2014) The Restless Dead in the Digital Cemetary, In Christopher Moreman and David Lewis (eds.). Praeger. Digital death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age.
Kohn, T., Gibbs, M., Arnold, M., and Nansen. B. (2012) ‘Facebook and the Other: Administering to and Caring for the Dead Online’, in Hage, G (ed), Responsibility, University of Melbourne Press, Parkville, Australia, pp 128–141.
Conference Papers
Gibbs, M., Carter, M. & Mori, J. (2013) Vile Rat: Spontaneous Shrines in EVE Online (2013) Foundations of Digital Games Conference (FDG’13), 15 May, Chania, Greece.
Bellamy, C, Arnold, M, Gibbs, M, Kohn, T, Nansen, B (2013) Mediating the digital hereafter: life beyond the timeline. Prato Community informatics Research Network (CIRN) Conference Oct 28–30 2013, Monash Centre, Prato Italy.
Gibbs, M,Carter, M, Arnold, M and Nansen, B (2013) Serenity Now bombs a World of Warcraft funeral: Negotiating the Morality, Reality and Taste of Online Gaming Practices. Proceedings of Internet Research 14.0: The 14th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR),23–26 October 2013, Denver, USA.
Mori, J, Gibbs, M, Arnold, M, and Nansen, B. (2012) ‘Design Considerations for After Death: Comparing the Affordances of Three Online Platforms’. Proceedings of the 24th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, Swinburne University, November 26–30. ACM Press, New York, p. 395–404.
We are always looking for opportunities to connect with scholars, funerary industry members, designers and death activists. To get in touch, email deathtech-research@unimelb.edu.au or follow our Twitter account @DeathTechTeam.
Global Death Studies Centres
The DeathTech Research Team is one of several academic groups around the world who study death, dying and disposal of the dead. Some of their websites can be found at:
- Death Online Research Network (DORN)
- Centre for Death and Life Studies (CDALS), Durham University, UK
- Centre for Death and Society (CDAS), Bath University, UK
- Death & Culture Network (DaCNet), York University, UK
- End of Life Studies, Glasgow University, UK
- Sheffield Death Group, The University of Sheffield, UK