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Virtual Afterlives [electronic resource] : Grieving the Dead in the Twenty-First Century / Candi K. Cann.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cann, Candi K.
- Series:
- Material Worlds
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Internet--Social aspects.
- Internet.
- Bereavement--Social aspects.
- Bereavement.
- Death--Social aspects.
- Death.
- Memorialization--Social aspects.
- Memorialization.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (213 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- For millennia, the rituals of death and remembrance have been fixed by time and location, but in the twenty-first century, grieving has become a virtual phenomenon. Today, the dead live on through social media profiles, memorial websites, and saved voicemails that can be accessed at any time. This dramatic cultural shift has made the physical presence of death secondary to the psychological experience of mourning.Virtual Afterlives investigates emerging popular bereavement traditions. Author Candi K. Cann examines new forms of grieving and evaluates how religion and the funeral indus
- Contents:
- Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Bodiless Memorial; 2. Wearing the Dead; 3. Moving the Dead; 4. Speaking to the Dead; 5. Grieving the Dead in Alternative Spaces; Acknowledgments; Appendix A; Appendix B; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8131-4543-0
- 0-8131-4549-X
- OCLC:
- 880580305
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