Hello, all —

I saw that Michael shared this link on Twitter, but thought I’d throw it on here for those of you who haven’t seen it. In her (brief) blog post, Yvonne Seale reflects on a recent presentation at the U of Iowa by Jennifer Shook, and thinks about the challenges of digital commemoration. I think she raises some interesting questions about privacy and the necessity of maintaining digital memory products. In the comments below the post, she suggests that we might think about the digital memorial as more of a verb than a noun, to emphasize its continual transformation/making. I think it’s worth checking out!

Yvonne Seale, “Love, Death, and Digital Memories” @ HASTAC:
http://hastac.org/blogs/yvonneseale/2013/02/16/love-death-and-digital-memories