Introduction: Mediating and Remediating Death

Dorthe Refslund Christensen; Kjetil Sandvik

Introduction: Mediating and Remediating Death

Dorthe Refslund Christensen, Kjetil Sandvik

Department of Communication

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Abstract

In this second volume we explore how people, groups and institutions deal with death through processes of mediation (the presentation of something through media), remediation (the representation of one medium in another, see below) and mediatization (the process through which core elements of a social or cultural activity assume media form, see below).
The volume presents a wide variety of ethnographies of death from Norway, Finland, Sweden, the US, Papua New Guinea, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Libya, Tibet, Uganda and Denmark as well as a number of online sites and social media material. These are analyzed through a vast number of theoretical and analytical perspectives in order to investigate how very diverse practices surrounding death and dying - mourning and commemoration, ritualization, politicization, re-enactment, traditionalization, activism or documentarism: private or public, offline or online - are performed by the use of media.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Mediating and Remediating Death
Editors	Dorthe Refslund Christensen, Kjetil Sandvik
Number of pages	21
Place of Publication	Farnham
Publisher	Ashgate
Publication date	1 Jan 2014
Pages	1-20
ISBN (Print)	9781472413031
ISBN (Electronic)	9781472413048, 9781472413055
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2014

Series	Studies in death, materiality and the origin of time
Volume	2

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Introduction: Mediating and Remediating Death. / Christensen, Dorthe Refslund; Sandvik, Kjetil.

Mediating and Remediating Death. ed. / Dorthe Refslund Christensen; Kjetil Sandvik. Farnham : Ashgate, 2014. p. 1-20 (Studies in death, materiality and the origin of time, Vol. 2).

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