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Communication media and the dead: from the Stone Age to Facebook
This article argues as follows: (i) The presence of the dead within a society depends in part on available communication technologies, specifically speech, stone, sculpture, writing, printing, photography and phonography (including the mass media), and most recently the internet. (ii) Each communica...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4606816/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26549977 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2014.993598 |
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description | This article argues as follows: (i) The presence of the dead within a society depends in part on available communication technologies, specifically speech, stone, sculpture, writing, printing, photography and phonography (including the mass media), and most recently the internet. (ii) Each communication technology affords possibilities for the dead to construct and legitimate particular social groups and institutions – from the oral construction of kinship, to the megalithic legitimation of the territorial rights of chiefdoms, to the written word’s construction of world religions and nations, to the photographic and phonographic construction of celebrity-based neo-tribalism, and to the digital reconstruction of family and friendship. (iii) Historically, concerns about the dead have on a number of occasions aided the development of new communication technologies – the causal connection between the two can go both ways. The argument is based primarily on critical synthesis of existing research literature. |
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spelling | pubmed-46068162015-11-05 Communication media and the dead: from the Stone Age to Facebook Walter, Tony Mortality (Abingdon) Articles This article argues as follows: (i) The presence of the dead within a society depends in part on available communication technologies, specifically speech, stone, sculpture, writing, printing, photography and phonography (including the mass media), and most recently the internet. (ii) Each communication technology affords possibilities for the dead to construct and legitimate particular social groups and institutions – from the oral construction of kinship, to the megalithic legitimation of the territorial rights of chiefdoms, to the written word’s construction of world religions and nations, to the photographic and phonographic construction of celebrity-based neo-tribalism, and to the digital reconstruction of family and friendship. (iii) Historically, concerns about the dead have on a number of occasions aided the development of new communication technologies – the causal connection between the two can go both ways. The argument is based primarily on critical synthesis of existing research literature. Routledge 2015-07-03 2015-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4606816/ /pubmed/26549977 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2014.993598 Text en © 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
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title | Communication media and the dead: from the Stone Age to Facebook |
title_full | Communication media and the dead: from the Stone Age to Facebook |
title_fullStr | Communication media and the dead: from the Stone Age to Facebook |
title_full_unstemmed | Communication media and the dead: from the Stone Age to Facebook |
title_short | Communication media and the dead: from the Stone Age to Facebook |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4606816/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26549977 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2014.993598 |
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