THE INTERNET AS A THEATRE OF DEATH: ABOUT EXPERIENCING DEATH, CEMETERY AND MOURNING IN THE VIRTUAL WORLD (Internet jako theatrum smierci. O przezywaniu, umieraniu, cmentarzu i zalobie w wirtualnym swiecie)

• Authors: Kapralska Lucja , Maksymowicz Agata
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the changing customs connected with the phenomenon of death that has been understood and experienced in a different way in traditional, modern and post-modern society. Today these changes appear in a new context - the Internet. Like many issues important to every individual, the subject of death has got many virtual representations. The authoresses have confined their analysis to three aspects of the presence of this issue on the Internet, and three types of Internet sites. They focus on: a/ the blog of a man dying from cancer, that is on the experience of dying in the virtual presence of others; b/ the assistance and emotional support given by Internet groups to parents in the critical situation of their child's death; and c/ the virtual cemetery as a way of commemorating our nearest and dearest. The examples under discussion show that the need for finding consolation after the death of a close person has not changed over the ages and the Internet only provides other forms of its satisfaction.

Keywords

EN

ANTHROPOLOGY OF DEATH; BLOG; E-CEMETERY; INTERNET SUPPORT; MOURNING

Discipline

• ANTHROPOLOGY: ANTHROPOLOGY

• Publisher: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
• Journal: Kultura i Społeczeństwo
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 191-208
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kapralska Lucja

author

Maksymowicz Agata

• Lucja Kapralska, Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza w Krakowie, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA074923