Socio-digital platforms uses and communication with the Dead. A reconfiguration of funeral rites

Prenant appui sur des travaux a l'intersection de la sociologie de la mort, de la sociologie de l'individu et des sciences de l'information et de la communication, cet article etudie la facon dont les dispositifs socionumeriques, par leurs specificites, reintroduisent la mort sur la scene sociale et engendrent de nouveaux rituels funeraires. Esquissant une typologie des usages des dispositifs numeriques memoriaux, il montre que les usages des donnees numeriques post mortem dependent fortement des possibilites, contraintes et formats de ces dispositifs. Ainsi, en raison de l'expressivite qui les caracterise, ces dispositifs concourent-ils tant a reconfigurer la communication avec les morts, et notamment l'identite numerique post mortem, que le processus de deuil.//Build Building upon research in the intersection between sociology of death, sociology of the individual and Information and Communication Sciences, this article studies the way socio-digital platforms, with their different specifications, contribute to re-introducing death into the social sphere and to creating new mourning rituals. Outlining a typology of how memorial websites are used, it shows that post mortem digital data uses depend on the platforms possibilities, constraints and technical formats. Socio-digital memorial platforms, which spawn a specific form of expression, are therefore reconfiguring the communication with the dead and particularly digital post mortem identity , and relation to mourning. http://www.cairn.info/resume.php?ID_ARTICLE=QDC_028_0101] Reproduced by permission of Bibliothèque de Sciences Po