"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
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
- Extent
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Online-Ressource, 29 S.
- Language
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Englisch
- Notes
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Veröffentlichungsversion
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Zürich
- (when)
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1998
- Creator
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Geser, Hans
- Contributor
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Universität Zürich, Philosophische Fakultät, Soziologisches Institut
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-385193
- Rights
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
- Last update
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15.08.2025, 7:32 AM CEST
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Associated
- Geser, Hans
- Universität Zürich, Philosophische Fakultät, Soziologisches Institut
Time of origin
- 1998