"Yours Virtually Forever": death memorials and remembrance sites in the WWW

Abstract: Contents 1. Death memorials as significant objects of societal and macrocultural studies; 2. The basic significance of the Internet for increasing the permeability between private and public spheres; 3. The phenomenology of Web Remembrance Sites; 4. The socio-cultural antecedents, functions and consequences ofWeb Memorial Sites: some macro- and microsociologal considerations; 4.1 Completing the dissociation of mourning from the physical body and grave; 4.2 Encouraging more complex and reflective responses by loosening the pressures of time; 4.4 Extensive mobilization of psychological support; 4.5 "Mourning" as an increasingly partialized and temporalized social role; 4.6 Typifying biographies and democratizing canonization; 5. Conclusions

Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource, 29 S.
Language
Englisch
Notes
Veröffentlichungsversion

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Zürich
(when)
1998
Creator
Geser, Hans
Contributor
Universität Zürich, Philosophische Fakultät, Soziologisches Institut

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-385193
Rights
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Associated

  • Geser, Hans
  • Universität Zürich, Philosophische Fakultät, Soziologisches Institut

Time of origin

  • 1998

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