ORCID Profile
0000-0002-1071-4168
Current Organisations
Central Institute for Economic Management
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University of Melbourne
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Social and Cultural Anthropology | Sociology | Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology | Computer-Human Interaction | Asian Cultural Studies | Anthropology |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Consumption Patterns, Population Issues and the Environment | Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified | Information and Communication Services not elsewhere classified
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Publications
Posthumous personhood and the affordances of digital media
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-09-2015
Robot death care: A study of funerary practice
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 14-06-2021
Abstract: Across the globe, human experiences of death, dying, and grief are now shaped by digital technologies and, increasingly, by robotic technologies. This article explores how practices of care for the dead are transformed by the participation of non-human, mechanised agents. We ask what makes a particular robot engagement with death a breach or an affirmation of care for the dead by examining recent entanglements between humans, death, and robotics. In particular, we consider telepresence robots for remote attendance of funerals semi-humanoid robots officiating in a religious capacity at memorial services and the conduct of memorial services by robots, for robots. Using the activities of robots to ground our discussion, this article speaks to broader cultural anxieties emerging in an era of high-tech life and high-tech death, which involve tensions between human affect and technological effect, machinic work and artisanal work, humans and non-humans, and subjects and objects.
The social life of the dead and the leisured life of the living online
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Date: 2018
‘Stood to rest’: reorientating necrogeographies for the 21st century
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2021
Uploading the ancestors: Experiments with digital Buddhist altars in contemporary Japan
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 31-12-2018
DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2018.1544948
Abstract: Domestic Buddhist altars have long provided symbolically and materially rich media for venerating the dead in Japan. However, as Japanese household structures and funerary rites are unsettled in the contemporary era, Buddhist altars (
Residues of death: Disposal refigured
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 16-05-2019
Consumer issues for planning and managing digital legacies
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 2014
How does the productivity of foreign-invested enterprises spill over to domestic firms in Vietnamese manufacturing?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-12-2021
Remembering Zyzz: Distributed Memories on Distributed Networks
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2016
Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 16-12-2003
An Interrogation of Sensory Anthropology of and in Japan
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2019
Becoming an Islander through Action in The Scottish Hebrides
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2002
The Seduction of the Exotic: Notes on Mixed Marriage in East Nepal 1
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 25-02-2021
Design considerations for after death: Comparing the affordances of three online platforms
Publisher: ACM
Date: 26-11-2012
Don’t talk – blend: ideas about body and communication in aikido practise
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 16-12-2003
Gravesites and websites: a comparison of memorialisation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2015
Death and digital media
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 22-11-2017
Managing the consumption of death and digital media: The funeral director as market intermediary
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-01-2019
DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2018.1522387
Abstract: A growing number of companies are offering digital products and services for use in funerals. Drawing on interdisciplinary research in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, we explore how funeral directors operate as intermediaries for these digital products and services. We critically examine the popular framing of the funeral industry as a "conservative" business and examine how funeral directors actively mediate between their clients and the companies offering innovative products and services. This study provides an account of current developments in the funeral economy as well as a broader narrative about how funeral industry professionals have engaged with technology.
Intersectoral linkages and imports of Vietnam: an input–output approach
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 25-01-2021
Extending the Boundaries of Care
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 12-05-2020
Automating Digital Afterlives
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 22-07-2021
DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780197571873.003.0006
Abstract: The question of how the dead “live on” by maintaining a presence and connecting to the living within social networks has garnered the attention of users, entrepreneurs, platforms, and researchers alike. In this chapter we investigate the increasingly ambiguous terrain of posthumous connection and disconnection by focusing on a erse set of practices implemented by users and offered by commercial services to plan for and manage social media communication, connection, and presence after life. Drawing on theories of self-presentation (Goffman) and technological forms of life (Lash), we argue that moderated and automated performances of posthumous digital presence cannot be understood as a continuation of personal identity or self-presentation. Rather, as forms of mediated human (after)life, posthumous social media presence materializes ambiguities of connection/disconnection and self/identity.
Ethics review and the limited gaze: a plea for an intervention
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2014
DOI: 10.1111/TAJA.12109_3
Cybernetic Funeral Systems
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 22-07-2021
Stuffed Turkey and Pumpkin Pie: In, Through and Out of American Contexts
Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Date: 11-02-2013
Abstract: This article explores the meanings embedded in the production, consumption, and symbolic positioning of turkey and pumpkin pie, foods closely associated with the American ritual feast of Thanksgiving. An analysis of turkey and pumpkin pie recipes used and adapted by first- and second-generation immigrants in north America, and by north Americans living abroad, throws into relief complex relations between food production, food consumption and the complexities of lived and often multiple sociocultural identifications. Through sharing the experiences, memories and associations evoked by in iduals in the production of holiday recipes, I argue that ideas about ‘tradition’ and a desire to celebrate family and community through the ritual of baking, serving and consuming a ‘standard’ Thanksgiving holiday meal allow one to feel part of an imagined global American community. At the same time these details demonstrate celebration of in idual and familial distinctiveness that is traced to (sometimes contested) memories of childhood and/or ethnic background, as well as to exploration, innovation and experience in the world at large through travel, migration and imagination.
Representing alkaline hydrolysis: a material-semiotic analysis of an alternative to burial and cremation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-02-2023
She came out of the field and into my home
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Date: 1995
Social Media in the Funeral Industry: On the Digitization of Grief
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
‘Death by Twitter’: Understanding false death announcements on social media and the performance of platform cultural capital
Publisher: University of Illinois Libraries
Date: 02-12-2019
Abstract: In this paper, we analyse false death announcements of public figures on social media and public responses to them. The analysis draws from a range of public sources to collect and categorise the volume of false death announcements on Twitter and undertakes a case study analysis of representative ex les. We classify false death announcements according to five overarching types: accidental misreported misunderstood hacked and hoaxed. We identify patterns of user responses, which cycle through the sharing of the news, to personal grief, to a sense of uncertainty or disbelief. But we also identify more critical and cultural responses to such death announcements in relation to misinformation and the quality of digital news, or cultures of hoax and disinformation on social media. Here we see the performance of online identity through a form that we describe, following Bourdieu as ‘platform cultural capital’.
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Related Funding Activities
Disposal Of The Dead: Beyond Burial And Cremation
Start Date: 2018
End Date: 2020
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityLearning And Teaching Initiatives Grant
Start Date: 2020
End Date: 2020
Funder: University of Melbourne
View Funded ActivityThe Future Cemetery
Start Date: 2019
End Date: 2022
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityDigital Commemoration
Start Date: 2014
End Date: 2016
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityDiscovery Projects - Grant ID: DP130102035
Start Date: 06-2013
End Date: 07-2019
Amount: $178,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityLinkage Projects - Grant ID: LP180100757
Start Date: 06-2019
End Date: 12-2022
Amount: $282,354.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityDiscovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140101871
Start Date: 02-2014
End Date: 12-2018
Amount: $256,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityDiscovery Projects - Grant ID: DP180103148
Start Date: 05-2018
End Date: 12-2022
Amount: $292,035.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded Activity