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"Yours Virtually Forever": death memorials and remembrance sites in the WWW

[working paper]

Geser, Hans

Corporate Editor
Universität Zürich, Philosophische Fakultät, Soziologisches Institut

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 cons... view more

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.... view less

Keywords
Internet; virtual reality; death; memorial; reminiscence; grief; privacy; the public

Classification
Interactive, electronic Media
Other Fields of Sociology

Method
descriptive study

Document language
English

Publication Year
1998

City
Zürich

Page/Pages
29 p.

Status
Published Version

Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications

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