Obituaries Online
New Connections with the Living—and the Dead
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13629271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Janice Hume (University of Georgia, corresponding author), Bonnie Bressers (Kansas State University) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 255-271 |
| Publication date | 2010-02-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2190/om.60.3.d |
| PMID | 20361725 |
| OpenAlex | W2148481551 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 12 |
This study examines online obituary pages at nine major U.S. daily newspapers seeking to understand how these sites use new technologies, and how they publicly portray people's lives and deaths. These mainstream dailies provide a forum, and potentially large audiences, for mourners who send messages to the dead, express emotion, and tell stories. They also facilitate connections between readers and build new kindsof virtual communities. This represents a departure from traditional obituary content. Indeed, the "cyber obit" now allows the bereaved to help frame the death stories and build the memorials, liberated from the linear, non-interactive formats of the past. This study builds on work of bereavement scholars as well as literature in journalism and mass communication
Dead body · Journalism · Mainstream · Media studies · Newspaper · Obituary · Political science · Sociology · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · History · Law · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
‘I will live by my own policies. I will sleep with a clear conscience. I will sleep in peace.’
Passou, Mas Permanece
“Muerte 2.0”
The Psychological Impacts of Cyberlife Engagement
The Digital Afterlife
You Have not Disappeared
Does the Internet Change How We Die and Mourn? Overview and Analysis
Redemption vs. #MeToo
Your story is our story
Transnational Migration and Digital Memorialization
Remembering the Dead
Life stories interrupted
Angels in the Clouds
Gardens of Stone
Reading between the Lines
The Final Fight
Together We Remember
So Much Life in Such a Short Time
A Life Lived”
A century of Canadian obituaries
Crowdsourcing obituaries in the digital age
Obituary, gender, and posthumous fame
Online obituaries as a complementary source of data for mortality in Canada
You Must Remember This
From monuments to megapixels
Between Archive and Participation
The Living and the Dead
Grief on the Web
Memorializing Loved Ones on the World Wide Web
Bereavement, Gender, and Cyberspace
Memorializing on the World Wide Web
Till death do us join
Remaking America
The Obituary as Collective Memory
Inventing the American Way of Death, 1830-1920
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |