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This thesis explores how participatory online rituals of mourning serve to mediate public death events that are collectively experienced as forms of social injustice, and the modes of collectivity they engender. I introduce the term Social Media Memorialising (SMM) to describe t…

Relatively new to some, but with a thirty year history of growth and innovation, video games have risen to prominence as one of the most critical forms of entertainment media over the past decade. The combination of visuals, sound, narrative, and social aspects, make video games…