TY - BOOK ID - 33059503 TI - Living and Dying in a Virtual World : Digital Kinships, Nostalgia, and Mourning in Second Life AU - Gibson, Margaret. AU - Carden, Clarissa. PY - 2018 SN - 331976098X 3319760998 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Social media. KW - User-generated media KW - Communication KW - User-generated content KW - Digital media. KW - Social Media. KW - Digital/New Media. KW - Sociology of Culture. KW - Cultural Studies. KW - Electronic media KW - New media (Digital media) KW - Mass media KW - Digital communications KW - Online journalism KW - Culture. KW - Cultural studies. KW - Cultural sociology KW - Culture KW - Sociology of culture KW - Civilization KW - Popular culture KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33059503 AB - This book takes readers into stories of love, loss, grief and mourning and reveals the emotional attachments and digital kinships of the virtual 3D social world of Second Life. At fourteen years old, Second Life can no longer be perceived as the young, cutting-edge environment it once was, and yet it endures as a place of belonging, fun, role-play and social experimentation. In this volume, the authors argue that far from facing an impending death, Second Life has undergone a transition to maturity and holds a new type of significance. As people increasingly explore and co-create a sense of self and ways of belonging through avatars and computer screens, the question of where and how people live and die becomes increasingly more important to understand. This book shows how a virtual world can change lives and create forms of memory, nostalgia and mourning for both real and avatar based lives. ER -