Introduction to the Special Issue on the Death, Afterlife, and Immortality of Bodies and Data

Information Society

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 133-141

  Graham, Connor ^a   Gibbs, Martin ^b   Aceti, Lanfranco ^c,d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

(after )death; historicization; hybridization; publics; rituals; the Internet

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877273885     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2013.777296     Document Type: Article

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