In digital remembrance: Vernacular memory and the rhetorical construction of web memorials

Media, Culture and Society

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 812-830

  Hess, Aaron ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Commemoration; Materiality; Public memory; Rhetoric; September 11; Web memorials

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548205238     PISSN: 01634437     EISSN: 14603675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163443707080539     Document Type: Article

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