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dc.contributor.authorGibson, Margaret
dc.contributor.editorAllan Kellehear, Fran Collyer
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:22:12Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:22:12Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.identifier.issn1446-1242
dc.identifier.doi10.5172/hesr.2007.16.5.415
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/18124
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the expansion of death and grief from private experience and spaces, into more public spheres via a range of media events and communication technologies. This shift is increasingly acknowledged and documented in death studies and media research. The modern experience of 'sequestered death' has passed. Death images and events are now thoroughly mediated by the visual and communication technologies used and accessed by a vast number of citizens across the globe. At the same time, the proliferation and accessibility of death imagery and narratives does not necessarily mean that the Western world has moved forward and beyond 'death denial'. Indeed, one of the key arguments of this paper is that mediated death - death as televisual, cinematic, and journalistic image and narrative - does not necessarily equate to a familiarity, and especially an existential acceptance of death, as it is faced and experienced in everyday life and relationships. Indeed, what we may be facing, and witnessing, is a widening gap and experiential differential between media/technological death culture and 'real life' contexts and temporalities of death and bereavement.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publishereContent Management
dc.publisher.placeMelany, Australia
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom415
dc.relation.ispartofpageto424
dc.relation.ispartofissue5
dc.relation.ispartofjournalHealth Sociology Review
dc.relation.ispartofvolume16
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSociology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4410
dc.titleDeath and Mourning in technologically mediated culture
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
gro.date.issued2015-04-10T00:51:16Z
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorGibson, Margaret


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