Cyberthanathology: Death and beyond in the digital age

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Highlights：

• Communication technologies have impacted every aspects of social life, including death.

• Digital technologies are reshaping the interactions between the living and the dead.

• Cyberthanatology is the articulation of death and related phenomena with and within cyberspace.

• The understanding of death-related phenomena needs to be integrated in the field of cyberpsychology.

摘要

•Communication technologies have impacted every aspects of social life, including death.•Digital technologies are reshaping the interactions between the living and the dead.•Cyberthanatology is the articulation of death and related phenomena with and within cyberspace.•The understanding of death-related phenomena needs to be integrated in the field of cyberpsychology.

论文关键词：Cyberthanatology,Digital commemoration,Grief,Mourning,Presence,Thanatology

论文评审过程：Received 7 January 2021, Revised 19 April 2021, Accepted 27 April 2021, Available online 3 May 2021, Version of Record 10 May 2021.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106849