This article examines memorialization among the family and friends of those who have died at the world’s deadliest border in the Mediterranean Sea. Digital media platforms are central spaces for new, innovative forms of coping with ambiguous loss or the inability to mourn over a dead body. The analysis focuses on the role of digital media technologies and the relationship between digital and material elements in memorialization. I examine the creation and circulation of digital objects of memorialization: visual assemblages in which the material and digital intertwine. The analysis demonstrates that digital media practices are not separate from the material world, nor do they make mourning and memorializing less human or less authentic. On the contrary, in transnational and mobile circumstances, digital technologies facilitate human, ethical engagement with complicated grief. Memorializing is crucial for both the private and the public lives of diasporic communities. In Europe, public recognition of the memorialization of refugee deaths would increase understanding of the human consequences of the border, allowing the dead to be seen as individuals with human relationships rather than as numbers.

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移民死亡的海外哀悼中的数字物质

本文考察了在世界上最致命的地中海边境遇难者的家人和朋友之间的纪念活动。数字媒体平台是新的创新形式的中心空间，可以应对模棱两可的损失或无法为死者哀悼。分析侧重于数字媒体技术的作用以及数字元素与物质元素在纪念活动中的关系。我研究了纪念数字对象的创造和流通：材料和数字交织在一起的视觉组合。分析表明，数字媒体实践并非与物质世界分离，它们也不会使哀悼和纪念变得不那么人性化或不那么真实。相反，在跨国和移动环境中，数字技术促进了人类、复杂的悲伤的伦理参与。纪念对于散居社区的私人和公共生活都至关重要。在欧洲，公众对难民死亡纪念活动的认可将增加对边界对人类后果的理解，使死者被视为具有人际关系的个人而不是数字。