Book Chapters & Academic Contributions

Elaine has contributed chapters to fifteen edited academic volumes on cyberpsychology, digital death, counselling psychology, and existential therapy.

Elaine's peer-reviewed research on digital death, posthumous data, continuing bonds, and online identity has been published in journals including Death Studies, Bereavement Care, Existential Analysis, and SCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology and Society.

Selected Chapters

If death is the spectacle, big tech is the lens in The Age of Spectacular Death (Routledge, 2020)

Mourning and memorialization on social media in The Oxford Handbook of Cyberpsychology (Oxford University Press, 2019)

Digital legacy in Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition (Onassis Foundation, 2022)

What grief isn't: Dead grief concepts and their digital-age revival in Social Media and Technology Across the Life Span(Palgrave, 2022)

Social media and digital afterlife in Digital Afterlife: Death Matters in a Digital Age (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2020)