Managing Memories: How digital tools mediate how we are remembered after death

Project Duration

January 2014 - July 2014

Funder

The School of Health Sciences Strategic Fund

Aims

1. To conduct a narrative literature review mapping the ways in which living users manage how they will be remembered posthumously, via digital sites, services and devices
2. To use this map to identify the range of memory-making practices that are supported and diminished by these digital sites, services and devices
3. To develop an informational RLO on the topic of posthumous digital remains. This RLO will be a technical guide, aimed at bereavement services, to the range of personal content left on digital devices and services posthumously. The tool will raise awareness among the bereavement-support community regarding the breadth of what can persist digitally after death.

Methods

Narrative literature review and RLO Development.

Stage of Development

Abstract accepted for Digital Memories Global Conference, Oxford, September 24-26, 2014.