Living and Dying in a Virtual World Digital Kinships, Nostalgia, and Mourning in Second Life /

• Main Authors: Gibson, Margaret (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Carden, Clarissa (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
• Subjects: Social media.; Digital media.; Culture.; Cultural studies.; Social Media.; Digital/New Media.; Sociology of Culture.; Cultural Studies.

This book takes readers into stories of love, loss, grief and mourning and reveals the emotional attachments and digital kinships of the virtual 3D social world of Second Life. At fourteen years old, Second Life can no longer be perceived as the young, cutting-edge environment it once was, and yet i...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Blended Families
• 3. Grievable Lives
• 4. Commemorative Culture
• 5. Sentimental Objects
• 6. Nostalgia
• 7. Conclusion.