Virtual Afterlives [[electronic resource] ] : Grieving the Dead in the Twenty-First Century / / Candi K. Cann

• Autore: Cann Candi K
• Pubblicazione: Lexington, Kentucky, : University Press of Kentucky, [2014]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (213 p.)
• Disciplina: 393
• Soggetto topico: Internet - Social aspects; Bereavement - Social aspects; Death - Social aspects; Memorialization - Social aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Virtual Afterlives
• ISBN: 0-8131-4543-0; 0-8131-4549-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787836603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Material Worlds