Death Studies Issue Call For Papers- 'Futures of Digital Death: Mobilities of Loss and Commemoration'. Deadline: 29th September 2017 As our lives and death become increasingly entangled within the digital, a new strand of research has emerged, exploring the opportunities and tensions that technologies can bring within the space of death, dying, and existential concern. A dominant focus has been on exploring and designing technologies supporting death-centric practices around remembrance of loved ones or inheritance of digital artifacts. However, less attention has been paid to how people are actively engaging in curating such data in both the physical and digital space for greater personal value. Ways in which we deal with digital selves, the body and its remains, the memorialization of lost ones, and the spatio-temporal and social context surrounding such practices have shifted the way in which we engage with death, from prescribed and formal to more dynamic, flexible and personally meaningful. This leads to a new range of research questions that require a genuinely interdisciplinary approach. This special issue focuses on the exploration of these emerging practices. We invite contributions that bring analytical, critical, practice-based and creative insights to the use, design and development of technologies entangled at the end of life. Theoretical, empirical, practical and design or art-based research and approaches are welcome. Themes may include: - Mobilities of death, loss and commemoration - The digital economies of death, dying, commemoration and loss - Dying online or digital mediations of death - Personalization and hybridization of rituals, digital memorialization, mourning practices - Digital afterlives, agency and the social presence of the dead - Digital remains, digital legacy, peri- or post mortem data - The multiple physical, informational, imaginative mobilities of death, loss and memory - The multiplying temporalities of practices, memories, experiences - Methodological considerations, e.g. ethics, privacy, value sensitive design - Methodological orientation to futures - e.g. use of utopia as method, scenarios, predictions, visions. For full details please visit:- http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/beh/futures-digital-death Warmest, Dr Selina Ellis-Gray @nina_ellis www.digitaloss.net www.researchgate.net/profile/Selina_Ellis_Gray