Resisting Islamophobia through Digital Artifacts of Mourning

Abstract

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Theorising Digital Afterlife as Techno-Affective Assemblage: On Relationality, Materiality, and the Affective Potential of Data

“…However, while post-death data (Harju and Huhtamäki 2021) reveal affective variability in digital afterlives in ways posthumous data cannot do, posthumous data testifying to a lived life remain a powerful element in digital afterlives for the political mobilisation of grief and channelling solidarity (Jiwani and Bernard-Brind'Amour 2023;Jiwani 2022;Morse 2023). Savin-Baden and Mason-Robbie (2020b) note how the socio-political and socio-cultural impacts of digital afterlives have attracted little attention: I argue it is in the context of memory and memory work where these effects can best be examined, particularly as they are embedded in the digital condition of today.…”

“…Savin-Baden and Mason-Robbie (2020b) note how the socio-political and socio-cultural impacts of digital afterlives have attracted little attention: I argue it is in the context of memory and memory work where these effects can best be examined, particularly as they are embedded in the digital condition of today. For example, resistance and contestation through digital afterlife artefacts (Jiwani 2022) contribute to the archival documentation of deaths as history, simultaneously working towards achieving mnemonic freedom (Recuber 2021) of the dead through collective remembering.…”