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This note considers the 'cyber memorial' (aka cyber
cemetery or virtual cemetery) phenomenon.
It covers -
It
supplements discussion elsewhere on this site regarding
social software, communities,
blogging and cybersuicide.
studies
There have been no major studies of cybermemorials. Salient
academic work includes Hermann Gruenwald & Le Gruenwald's
'Cyber Cemeteries and Virtual Memorials' in Making
Sense of Death (Amityville: Baywood 2003) edited
by Gerry Cox and Pamela Roberts' 'The Living & the
Dead: Community in the Virtual Cemetery' in 49 Omega:
The Journal of Death and Dying 2004.
For a historical perspective see Esther Schor's Bearing
the Dead: The British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment
to Victoria (Princeton: Princeton Uni Press 1994),
Laurence Lerner's Angels and Absences: Child Deaths
in the Nineteenth Century (Nashville: Vanderbilt
Uni Press 1997), James Curl's The Victorian Celebration
of Death (Stroud: Sutton 2005) and Pat Jalland's
Death in the Victorian Family (Oxford: Oxford
Uni Press 1996) and Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth
Century Australia (Sydney: UNSW Press 2006).
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