[Commlist] Call for Papers - 5th International Symposium of the Death Online Research Network

Final call for papers 5th International Symposium of Death Online 
Research Network
Copenhagen, Denmark, May 27th - 29th, 2020.

DORS#5 will take place at The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 
Submission deadline is October 1st, 2019.

About the symposium:
The Death Online Research Network is an international research network 
for researchers within media and communication studies, cultural 
studies, sociology, psychology, law and other related fields. 
Researchers share an interest in the study of death, mourning practices 
and legacy online and in digital life.

This 5th annual symposium will consolidate the links between existing 
and new members of the network and provide opportunities for the 
discussion of ongoing and new orientations in the academic and 
interdisciplinary field of death online. The meeting will explore 
methods, challenges and interdisciplinary convergences in Death Online 
research and practice. We warmly welcome new members to the network as 
well as old friends.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Professor Jayne Wallace, Northumbria University, UK.
Associate Professor Carsten Stage, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Themes and perspectives:
We invite abstracts for oral presentations of new, recently completed, 
or ongoing research, and/or new ideas relating to methods, challenges 
and interdisciplinary convergences on death related online practices. We 
welcome presentations that explore how qualitative, quantitative and 
practice-based research expands our understanding of the current and 
future trends in death online from a variety of disciplines and 
perspectives. The abstracts can expand on the symposium theme in 
relation to any of the following areas:

- Digitally mediated dying and narrative
- Digitally mediated grieving and memorialising
- Digital afterlife, post-mortem identity and digital legacy
- Technological developments in the death care industry
- Digital immortality
- Sensitive research data challenges
- Theorising online life and death
- Ethical challenges for studying death online.

The symposium will host a special workshop for participating Post 
Graduate students and early career researchers. We particularly welcome 
submissions from these groups. All submissions will be peer-reviewed, 
and we envisage publication of selected full papers in a special issue 
of an academic journal as well as a collection of writing from the 
symposium in an open-access online platform.

Important information:
Submission format: 300 word abstract
Submission deadline: October 1st, 2019
Submission feedback: November 1st, 2019

Registration open: December 1st, 2019
Registration fee: DDK 1500 / EURO 200 / GBP 180
Registration fee, PhDs and Post Graduates: DDK 1200 / EURO 160 / GBP 150

All submissions and enquiries should be submitted to Dr Stine Gotved: 
(gotved /at/ itu.dk) marked "DORS#5 Submission" in the subject field. Abstracts 
should be no longer than 300 words. Please include a separate page with 
full contact info (author name, institutional affiliation and position, 
email address) in the submission. Submissions will be anonymised by the 
organisers before review.

Further information about the symposium can be found at:
https://blogit.itu.dk/dors2020/

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