Communication as travel
The genre of letters to the dead in public media
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12778489 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christine Aronis (0000-0002-4150-2918, Colorado State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-42 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Explorations in Media Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1539-7785 • E-ISSN: 2048-0717 |
| Publisher | Intellect (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/eme.18.1-2.23_1 |
| OpenAlex | W2945991939 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
The phenomenon of personally addressing the dead through letters published in public media is a prevalent communicative practice that has earned little academic notice. This practice disrupts some common communication principles and provides us with new understandings of how communication works – by travelling, rather than reaching an end. To encapsulate and characterize this phenomenon, this article focuses on an Israeli case study of letters written to the dead and published in popular newspapers. I use a media ecology approach to phenomenologically classify five sets of characteristics in order to stimulate future discussion and analysis
Epistemology · Genre analysis · Linguistics · Media ecology · Media studies · New media · Newspaper · Notice · Order (exchange · Phenomenon · Political science · Sociology · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |