Digital Séance
Fabricated Encounters with the Dead
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5934612 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Doron Altaratz (0000-0003-1327-6404, Hadassah Academic College, corresponding author), Tal Morse (0000-0002-9960-620X, University of Bath, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 635 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/socsci12110635 |
| OpenAlex | W4388723015 |
| Language | CA |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 20 |
Digital afterlife is becoming increasingly possible due to advancements in VR, deepfake, and AI technologies. The use of computational photography for mourning and commemoration has been re-integrated into practices of remembrance, farewell, continuity, and disengagement. Two case studies, the Shoah Foundation's Dimensions in Testimony and the TV production Meeting You, are analyzed to explore these new possibilities. We show how photography's new affordances enable interaction while maintaining its essence as a representation of reality and argue that this socio-technological transformation habituates contemporary practices of mourning and commemoration, adjusting images to serve the individual needs and interests of the bereaved and the community
Aesthetics · Affordance · Afterlife · Art · Disengagement theory · Human–computer interaction · Literature · Photography · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Photography and Visual Culture
Transmitted Wounds
The Creation and Inheritance of Digital Afterlives
Continuing Bonds in Bereavement
Rethinking Media Change
Continuing bonds in the age of social networking
Postmortal Society
The algorithmic turn
Embalmed vision
Sentient Photography
Everyday Photography and Mourning in the 21st Century
Phatic morality
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |