Mediated Death

ISBN-13: 9781509544530 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 180 str.

Johanna Sumiala

Recenzje

'Mediated Death resolves the fundamental question of why and how we ritualize death. Lucid, thoughtful, and filled with insightful examples, it lays out the rich connections linking mediated death and social life, etching new contours that undergird their symbiotic relationship.'Barbie Zelizer, University of Pennsylvania'Johanna Sumiala has written a wonderful book. A book that, by exploring the dilemmas of mortality as we experience them in and through our hybrid environments of mediation, offers us more than an eloquent treatise of mediated death. It gifts us with a profound reflection on the new rituals of loss, mourning, and community in 21st-century modernity.'Lilie Chouliaraki, London School of Economics and Political Science

Spis treści

Preface1 Mediating Death2 A Brief History of an Idea3 The Event of Death4 Rethinking Mourning Rituals5 Ritual Contestations6 Rituals Connect and Separate7 The Quest for Post-MortalityBibliographyIndex

O autorze

Johanna Sumiala is Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Helsinki.