Digital Death: Transforming History, Rituals and Afterlife

数字化死亡：改变历史、仪式和来世（以下简称“DiDe”）是一个跨学科的研究联盟，致力于解决当代社会中人类死亡的文化和社会转变，因为它的特点是当前集体社会和文化存在的数字化饱和。它汇集了杜伦大学（英国）、奥胡斯大学（丹麦）、布加勒斯特大学（罗马尼亚）和赫尔辛基大学（芬兰），由赫尔辛基大学领导和监督整个方案。纵观历史，死亡通常是与宗教和/或其他意识形态信仰体系和社会机构一起提出并精心策划的（ari<e:1>, 1977; Davies, 2011）。DiDe基于这样一个前提，即在当代数字社会中，死亡在很大程度上越来越多地通过数字通信和相关的文化、社会和制度实践和惯例来体验和管理（Sumiala 2021; Sisto 2020; Stokes 2021）。目前的情况影响死亡作为一种社会和文化现象在多个方面（Jacobsen 2021）。它改变了社会上对死亡的观念、信仰和观念，改变了生者与死者之间的关系，影响了丧恸做法的范围和特点，并重新调整了与人类死亡有关的价值观和道德，并重新配置了管理和控制社会死亡的体制结构（Sumiala 2021; Coeckelbergh 2020; Han 2020）。DiDe联盟通过将人类死亡作为数字社会加速文化和社会转型的对象来研究数字死亡的主题。在DiDe中，数字死亡被定义为一个概念，不仅仅是在数字环境中感知、体验和执行的死亡和与死亡相关的实践。DiDe将死亡定义为一种与数字传播和文化互动中表达、体验和表演的现象。这指的是一种辩证的方法，在这种方法中，数字被视为在社会和文化中塑造对死亡的感知和体验，但也被它塑造。

The consortium Digital Death: Transforming History, Rituals and Afterlife (hereafter DiDe) is an interdisciplinary research consortium that addresses cultural and social transformation of human death in contemporary society as it is characterised by digital saturation of the current collective social and cultural existence. It brings together the Universities of Durham (UK), Aarhus (Denmark), Bucharest (Romania) and Helsinki (Finland, with Helsinki leading and overseeing the entire programme Throughout history, death has typically been presented alongside and orchestrated by religion and/or other ideological belief systems and societal institutions (Ariès 1977; Davies 2011). DiDe builds on a premise that in contemporary digital society, death is largely and increasingly experienced through and managed by affordances of digital communication and related cultural, social and institutional practices and conventions (Sumiala 2021; Sisto 2020; Stokes 2021). The present circumstance affects death as a social and cultural phenomenon in multiple ways (Jacobsen 2021). It transforms ideas, beliefs and conceptions of death in society, alters relationships between the living and the dead and influences the range and character of bereavement practices, as well as reconditioning values and morals associated with human death, and reconfiguring institutional structures that manage and control death in society (Sumiala 2021; Coeckelbergh 2020; Han 2020). The DiDe consortium investigates the topic of digital death by approaching human death as an object of accelerated cultural and social transformation in digital society. In DiDe, digital death is defined as a concept that is more than just death and death-related practices perceived, experienced and performed in a digital context. DiDe specifies death as a phenomenon articulated, experienced and performed in interaction with digital communication and culture. This refers to a dialectical approach in which the digital is seen to shape perceptions and experiences of death in society and culture, but also being shaped by it.