Katrin Gerber is an end-of-life research fellow with a PhD in psychology at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research explores the intersection of creative methods, mental health, and death studies, with current focus on digital media and AI in grief.Larissa Hjorth is a digital ethnographer, socially engaged artist, and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. With nearly three decades of experience in mobile media research, she has published extensively on intergenerational connection, intimacy, play, ageing, loss, and death in digital contexts. Find out more about her Future Fellowship on www.themourningafter.net.Crystal Abidin is a digital anthropologist of vernacular internet cultures, especially in the Asia Pacific region. She is Director of the Influencer Ethnography Research Lab and Professor of Internet Studies at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. Crystal has published numerous books on influencer cultures and social media platforms. Reach her at wishcrys.com.

• 1. Introduction: Framing grief in the age of viral loss Part 1: Platformed grief: Affordances, algorithms, and visibility 2. The affective witnessing of Instagram grief influencers 3. Humour in grief: Remixability, affect, and platformed emotion on TikTok 4. Digital skies of ecological grief: Emotional constellations of #ecogrief across digital platforms Part 2: Mourning together: Emotionalises and rituals of collective grief 5. #GriefJourney: Narrating grief in 60 seconds on TikTok 6. Genres of digital grief participation 7. Tacit tactics: Emotional labour and grief-influencing on TikTok Part 3: Politics and protest: Grief as public resistance 8. Charlie Kirk’s online mourning as ritual activity: What would Victor Turner say? 9. Networked afterlives: Necropolitical algorithms and rumours as acts of resurrection 10. “Nos queremos vivas”: Digital circulation of grief and feminist solidarity through protest anthems 11. Conclusion: The future of digital grief

"This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand how social media shapes grief! By paying attention to the algorithms, platforms and infrastructures, it takes readers on an intriguing journey into the depths of human emotions and their entanglement with technology. The editors have crafted a fascinating, interdisciplinary and up-to-date collection that will expand our collective understanding of cross-platform grievability."Associate Professor Stacey Pitsilides, School of Design, Northumbria University