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dc.contributor.authorGibson, Margaret
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:04:08Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:04:08Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.date.modified2012-02-10T02:27:06Z
dc.identifier.issn0038-2876
dc.identifier.doi10.1215/00382876-1382321
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/42300
dc.description.abstractThis essay examines the expansion of death and grief from private experience and spaces, into public spheres via a range of media events and communication technologies. This shift is increasingly acknowledged and documented in death studies and to some extent in 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 people across the globe. At the same time, the proliferation and accessibility of death imagery and narratives do not necessarily equate to a familiar 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
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherDuke University Press
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom917
dc.relation.ispartofpageto932
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalSouth Atlantic Quarterly
dc.relation.ispartofvolume110
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSociology not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCultural studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLiterary studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode441099
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4702
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4705
dc.titleReal-Life Death: Between Public and Private, Interior and Exterior, the Real and the Fictional
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
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gro.date.issued2011
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorGibson, Margaret


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