Celebrities’ Memorial Afterlives
Obituaries, Tributes, and Posthumous Gossip in the Romanian Media Deathscape
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13628015 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mihai Stelian Rusu (0000-0001-5474-3895, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 568-591 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-17 |
| 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 | 10.1177/0030222817748418 |
| PMID | 29249171 |
| OpenAlex | W2780339327 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 16 |
Cross-culturally, dead are protected from posthumous negative evaluations by the universal "nil nisi bonum" precept that governs the ethics within the community of mourners. In this study, we set out to test the observance of this injunction against posthumous gossiping in the Romanian public deathscape. Obituaries and other posthumous articles ( N = 1,148) were collected that covered the deaths of 63 celebrities who passed away between 2013 and 2016. Materials were gathered from the digital archives of three Romanian news sources (a news agency, a "quality" newspaper, and a tabloid), published one week after the moment of death. The findings show that 22% of the articles do contain negative evaluations of the deceased. The percentage rises to 36.4% if we restrict the sample to only those celebrities with a controversial anthumous reputation (19 of 63). These results indicate that celebrities are not spared from critical assessments after they pass away
Art · Gossip · Linguistics · Media studies · Political science · Romanian · Sociology · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy
Understanding Celebrity
Distinction
An analysis of obituaries in staff magazines
Sex Discrimination after Death
Defining the Situation
How Will You be Remembered after You Die?” Gender Discrimination after Death Twenty Years Later
Identifying Virtues and Values Through Obituary Data-Mining
The celebritization of society and culture
The Obituary as Collective Memory
Obituary for the newspaper? Tracking the tabloid
The virtues of gossip
Collective Memory and Forgetting
Celebrity Status
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |