ABSTRACT
Understanding children’s use of digital media in times of grief illuminates the maintenance of relationships, and the validation of loss, through the storing, saving, and sharing of affective digital content. This chapter focusses on digital media in a range of child and adolescent experiences related to death. Two case studies of childhood bereavement demonstrate complexities related to the use of digital media in the amelioration of traumatic experiences and the processing of loss. Digital media is constructed as a means through which children facilitate the continuation of bonds with lost loved ones.
