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Margaret Gibson is Associate Professor in Cultural Sociology at Griffith University's School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science. Her research examines death, mourning, and memory in digital and material cultures, with focus on social media grieving, virtual worlds, and memorial objects.
Gibson authored Objects of the Dead (2008) and co-authored Living and Dying in a Virtual World (2018), exploring digital kinship in platforms like Second Life. She teaches courses on Death/Grief Culture and Sociology of Identity. Current doctoral supervision includes projects on nostalgia in gaming communities and military family liminality.
Media contributions include ABC Radio analyses of public mourning and commissioned essays for international exhibitions like The Last Image: Photography and Death.
