Materialization of Digital Death
Session Notes: John Romano
- social grief
- comparing online memorials to social networks
- transformation of social profiles into memorials
- people don’t care about their own profile but have strong feelings about other people’s profiles
- a memorialized profile still “belongs” to the deceased
– people talk TO the dead on profiles, not about the dead
- tasks of grieving
– requires talking to the dead
– also requires talking to the living
- pattern matching makes people mirror what others are doing
– creates shifting norms that people follow
- declaration of purpose of the place defines how people act
- is the social network the right place to grieve?
– what people really want their social network to do
– mixed social spheres often makes communal grieving difficult
- there are third party grieving sites that are more intentional places to grieve
- messages from the dead
- avatars
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