Episode 3: The Digital Graveyards Project - Interview with Elaine Kasket & Luke Van Ryn
As part of the Digital Graveyards Project, this episode focuses on a research trip attended by Dr. Yasmin Jiwani and her research assistant to the 4th Symposium of the International Death Online Research Network that was held at the University of Hull in England. This conversation features an interview with Dr. Elaine Kasket and Luke Van Ryn. Elaine Kasket is a psychologist, visiting lecturer at Regents's University (London) and author of All the Ghosts in the Machine: Illusions of Immortality in the Digital Age. She speaks to us about the digital footprint we leave after our death, and the online rights of those who have passed. Luke Van Ryn is a Media Studies researcher at the University of Melbourne. In this episode, he explains how the funeral industry is adapting to the digital era. Credits: Sponsored by Concordia University Opening Music "Music for Bass Clarinet and Two Vibraphones" by Maxime Fillion (soundcloud.com/maxime_fillion_composer/) Opening sound effect by Trip Sound Music by Blue Dot Session under Creative Commons Audio Edit by Shanice Bernicky & Émilie Trudeau