Dear all, Allow me to announce the publication of Digital Existence: Ontology, Ethics and Transcendence in Digital Culture. Edited by Amanda Lagerkvist, Stockholm University and with a foreword by John Durham Peters, Yale University. (Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Digital Culture edited by Heidi Campbell, Mia Lövheim and Gregory Price Grieve). Digital Existence: Ontology, Ethics and Transcendence in Digital Culture advances debates on digital culture and digital religion in two complementary ways. First, by focalizing the themes ‘ontology,’ ‘ethics’ and ‘transcendence,’ it builds on insights from research on digital religion in order to reframe the field and pursue an existential media analysis that further pushes beyond the mandatory focus in mainstream media studies on the social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of digitalization. Second, the collection also implies a broadening of the scope of the debate in the field of media, religion and culture – and digital religion in particular – beyond ‘religion,’ to include the wider existential dimensions of digital media. It is the first volume on our digital existence in the budding field of existential media studies. https://www.routledge.com/Digital-Existence-Ontology-Ethics-and-Transcendenc... Also: If you happen to be at the ISMRC conference at the University of Colorado Boulder, on Thursday, August 9, come to our panel and book launch! Panel Session 3: “Existential Media Studies: Probing Technologies of Life, Death and Beyond”, in Multipurpose Room A (9:00-10:30am). Paper presentations by Amanda Lagerkvist, Tamara Kneese & Ben Peters, Johanna Sumiala and Charles M. Ess. Respondent: John D. Peters. Best wishes, Amanda Lagerkvist Amanda Lagerkvist PhD Associate Professor Wallenberg Academy Fellow Head of Programme: http://et.ims.su.se<http://et.ims.su.se/> lagerkvist<https://research.ims.su.se/en/profiles/13-amanda-lagerkvist> http://www.wallenbergacademyfellows.se<http://www.wallenbergacademyfellows.se/>