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Mediating and Remediating Death
298 Pages
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Routledge
298 Pages
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Routledge
298 Pages
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Routledge
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From the ritual object which functions as a substitute for the dead - thus acting as a medium for communicating with the ’other world’ - to the representation of death, violence and suffering in media, or the use of online social networks as spaces of commemoration, media of various kinds are central to the communication and performance of death-related socio-cultural practices of individuals,... Read more
Mediating and Remediating Death; I: Mediating and Remediating Encounters with Death and Dying; 1: Death in Times of Secularization and Sacralization: The Mediating and Re-Mediating of the Utøya Tragedy in the Norwegian Public Sphere; 2: Spirits of Connection: Séances and Sciences in Paranormal Gettysburg; 3: Infinity in a Spear: Things as Mediations among the Mbuke (Papua New Guinea); 4: The Bereavement Project: Picturing Time and Loss through Photographs in the Landscape of New Media; II: Mediating and Remediating Death in Public Spheres; 5: Ritualising Public Death in the Nordic Media; 6: The Besieged City in the Heart of Europe: Sniper Alley in Sarajevo as Memorial Site on YouTube; 7: Non-Professional Visuals Framing the News Coverage of the Death of Muammar Gaddafi; 8: In-Game and Out-of-Game Mourning: On the Complexity of Grief in Virtual Worlds; 9: A Memorial of Heroes Past: Portraying Tibetan Self-Immolation on Facebook; III: Mediating and Remediating Practices for Death and Dying; 10: Online A-Liveness: A ‘Rhythmanalysis' of Three Illness Blogs made by Rosie Kilburn, Jessica Joy Rees and Eva Markvoort; 11: The Suicidal Mind; 12: Grieving for a (Facebook) Friend: Understanding the Impact of Social Network Sites and the Remediation of the Grieving Process; 13: Death Ends a Life, Not a Relationship: Objects as Media on Children's Graves
Biography
Dorthe Refslund Christensen is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark and co-editor of the series Studies in Death, Materiality and Time. She is co-editor of Taming Time Timing Death: Social Technologies and Ritual, the first volume in the Studies in Death, Materiality and Time series. Kjetil Sandvik is Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is head of the Cross Media Communication study program and the research project Meaning Across Media: Cross media communication and co-creation.
"The book is an inspiring resource for researchers wishing to gain an insight into varied materials in the age of social virtual networking and proposals on conceptualisations of digital media. I found it particularly interesting research – because of my engagement in visual anthropology – bringing into focus the pictures and photographs. The book reveals that photography is far from a neutral or transparent vehicle, but is performative and equipped with a specific power."
Anna E. Kubiak, Cultural Anthropologist, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland in Mortality (2016)
