The digital and our physical are two circles in the venn diagram that are slowly expanding, interweaving, and moving closer to become one full circle, but could never be. With so much overlap, the digital is reshaping many aspects of our lives as we are reshaping the digital, including our grief.
Digital grief is the way we grieve in the digital era. Humanity had always been reinventing new ways to grieve. As our lives merge with the digital, we adjust our grieving traditions to fit our current values and lifestyles.
I wish to observe how the digital affects the way we deal with loss, treat the dead, and view mortality through this project.
To understand what digital grief means in the context of this study, I will walk the readers through multiple methods to understand the term before going into the reading materials.