Mediating and Remediating Death

Herausgeber: Christensen, Dorthe Refslund; Sandvik, Kjetil

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presenting rich, new interdisciplinary empirical case studies and fieldwork from the US and Europe, Asia, The Middle East, Australasia and Africa, Mediating and Remediating Death shows how different media forms contribute to the shaping and transformation of various forms of death and commemoration, whether in terms of their range and distribution, their relation to users or their roles in creating and maintaining communities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781472413031
• ISBN-10: 1472413032
• Artikelnr.: 45435584

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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