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Young People and Digital Grief Etiquette 年轻人和数字悲伤礼仪

A Networked Self and Birth, Life, Death Pub Date : 2018-08-06 DOI: 10.4324/9781315202129-10

C. Abidin

引用次数: 7

Co-Creating Birth and Death on Social Media 在社交媒体上共同创造生与死

A Networked Self and Birth, Life, Death Pub Date : 2018-08-06 DOI: 10.4324/9781315202129-3

Tama Leaver

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引用次数: 8

Deconstructing Immortality? Identity Work and the Death of David Bowie in Digital Media 解构不朽?数字媒体中的身份工作与大卫·鲍伊之死

A Networked Self and Birth, Life, Death Pub Date : 2018-08-01 DOI: 10.4324/9781315202129-11

Johanna Sumiala

引用次数: 1

Imagining the Future Through the Lens of the Digital 通过数字镜头想象未来

A Networked Self and Birth, Life, Death Pub Date : 2018-07-20 DOI: 10.4324/9781315202129-4

S. Livingstone, Alicia Blum-Ross

引用次数: 12