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The Digital Consumption of Death: Reflections on Virtual Mourning Practices on Social Networking Sites

Ming Lim

In: The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption

Russell W. Belk; Rosa Llamas (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2019), pp. 396-403

"In exploring virtual mourning practices and their implications for death consumption in general, new questions in the field of consumer research emerge. It is hoped that once we gain some understanding of how online mourning practices illuminate notions of ‘materiality’ and/or ‘embodiment’ ... more

Games and Bereavement: How Video Games Represent Attachment, Loss, and Grief

Sabine Harrer

Bielefeld: transcript (2018), 273 pp.

"How can videogames portray love and loss? Games and Bereavement answers this question by looking at five videogames and carrying out a participatory design study with grievers. Sabine Harrer highlights possible connections between grief and videogames, arguing that game design may help make difficu ... more

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Death and Digital Media

Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, Tamara Kohn, James Meese, Bjorn Nansen, Elizabeth Hallam

London; New York: Routledge (2018), ix, 178 pp.

"Death and Digital Media provides a critical overview of how people mourn, commemorate and interact with the dead through digital media. It maps the historical and shifting landscape of digital death, considering a wide range of social, commercial and institutional responses to technological innovat ... more

Todesbilder im Film: Eine Arbeitsbibliographie

Hans Jürgen Wulff

Medienwissenschaft Berichte und Papiere, issue 177 (2018), 20 pp.

"Es bedarf der Kontextanalyse, wenn man an die Kulturalität des Todes sich annähern will. Das Gros der vorliegenden Untersuchungen entäuscht gerade in dieser Qualität – weil quantitative Inhaltsanalysen gerade diesen, of sehr komplexen, Zusammenhang kaum erfassen können, weil Einzelanalysen z ... more

The Mourning News: Reporting Violent Death in a Global Age

Tal Morse

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), xvi, 267 pp.

"The book develops the analytics of grievability as an analytical framework that unpacks the ways in which news about death constructs grievable death and articulates relational ties between spectators and sufferers. The book employs the analytics of grievability in a comparative manner and analyses ... more

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Haunting Hands: Mobile Media Practices and Loss

Kathleen M. Cumiskey, Larissa Hjorth

New York: Oxford University Press (2017), xii, 228 pp.

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African Print Cultures: Newspapers and Their Publics in the Twentieth Century

Derek R. Peterson, Emma Hunter, Stephanie Newell (eds.)

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2017), x, 447 pp.

"The first of four thematic sections, “African Newspaper Networks,” considers the work that newspaper editors did to relate events within their locality to happenings in far-off places. This work of correlation and juxtaposition made it possible for distant people to see themselves as fellow tra ... more

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Reporting Bad News: Negotiating the Boundaries Between Intrusion and Fair Representation in Media Coverage of Death

Sallyanne Duncan, Jacki Newton

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2017), xii, 223 pp.

"Much has been written about disasters and large-scale tragedies, but this research concentrates on individual loss and the relationship between journalist and vulnerable interviewee. While much discussion in this area is negative, focusing on the ethics of intrusion and journalists who act insensit ... more

Digital Environments: Ethnographic Perspectives Across Global Online and Offline Spaces

Urte Undine Frömming, Steffen Köhn, Samantha Fox, Mike Terry (eds.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2017), 267 pp.

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Memory in a Mediated World: Remembrance and Reconstruction

Andrea Hajek, Christine Lohmeier, Christian Pentzold (eds.)

Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 307 pp.

"Considering both retrospective memories and the prospective employment of memories, Memory in a Mediated World examines troubled times that demand resolution, recovery and restoration. Its contributions provide empirically grounded analyses of how media are employed by individuals and social groups ... more

Facets of Facebook: Use and Users

Kathrin Knautz, Katsiaryna Baran (eds.)

Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Saur (2016), x, 328 pp.

"The debate on Facebook raises questions about the use and users of this information service. This collected volume gathers a broad spectrum of social science and information science articles about Facebook.Facebook has many facets, and we just look forward above all to the use and users. The facet ... more

The Dynamics of Mediatized Conflicts

Mikkel Fugl Eskjær, Stig Hjarvard, Mette Mortensen (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2015), 221 pp.

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Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practices in North Africa and the Middle East

Anthony Downey (ed.)

London; New York: Tauris (2014), 359 pp.

"Examining the opportunities presented by the real-time generation of new, relatively unregulated content online, Uncommon Grounds evaluates the prominent role that new media has come to play in artistic practices – and social movements – in the Arab world today. Analysing alternative forms of c ... more

Communication Among the Pacific Islands

Media Development, volume 61, issue 3 (2014), pp. 4-25

Public Opinion and the Catholic Church

Norberto González Gaitano

Rome: EDUSC (2010), 114 pp.

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Representing Death in the News: Journalism, Media and Mortality

Folker Hanusch

Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan (2010), viii, 199 pp.

"This new study maps and synthesizes existing research on the ways in which journalism deals with death. Folker Hanusch provides a historical overview of death in the news, looks at the conditions of production, content and reception, and also analyzes emerging trends in the representation of death ... more

"Fürchtet euch nicht vor neuen Technologien": Öffentliches Leiden und Sterben des Medienpapstes. Die Medien als Stimulanzfaktor einer kurzfristigen Massenbewegung

Maud E. Sieprath

In: Religion und Massenmedien

Maud E. Sieprath (ed.)

Berlin: Weißensee-Verlag (2009), pp. 11-31

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Alle Toten auf ihre Plätze! Die mediale Inszenierung des Todes

Elisabeth Hurth

Mainz: Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag (2004), 144 pp.