Mediating and remediating death / edited by Dorthe Refslund Christensen and Kjetil Sandvik ; contributors, Mads Daugbjerg [and fourteen others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christensen, Dorthe Refslund.

Contributor:

Christensen, Dorthe Refslund, editor.

Sandvik, Kjetil, editor.

Daugbjerg, Mads, contributor.

Series:

Studies in Death, Materiality and the Origin of Time

Studies in Death, Materiality and the Origin of Time ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death.

Bereavement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Mediating and Remediating Death; Part I:Mediating and Remediating Encounters with Death and Dying; 1 Death in Times of Secularization and Sacralization; 2 Spirits of Connection; 3 Infinity in a Spear; 4 The Bereavement Project; Part II:Mediating and Remediating Death in Public Spheres; 5Ritualising Public Death in the Nordic Media; 6 The Besieged City in the Heart of Europe; 7Non-Professional Visuals Framing the News Coverage of the Death of Muammar Gaddafi

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-59457-9

1-317-09862-5

1-317-09861-7

1-4724-1304-0

9781315594576

OCLC:

882104876