ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how mobile media shape, and are shaped by, particular affordances and affects related to death. It discusses the idea of "mobile-emotive" as a way in which to understand how intimacy and affectivity are framed by mobile media practices. The chapter considers some of the provocations and expectations around the contested role of the life of mobile media death as a vehicle for networked self. The "selfie" can be used as a prime vehicle through which media, memory, and death can be explored, especially as it relates to the growing synergy between intimacy, affect, mobile media, etiquette, and identity. The networked nature of mobile visuality and of the self does inform some of the complex ethical dilemmas in and around the unimagined futures of what we do with the data of the dead. Mobile visuality and mobile memories can inform a reconceptualizing death, afterlife, and notions of selfhood after death.
