Larger Than Life: Digital Resurrection and the Re-Enchantment of Society

Information Society

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 164-176

  Sherlock, Alexandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

celebrity; death; digital resurrection; hierophany; mourning; necromancy; postmodernism; re enchantment; religion; secularization; symbolic immortality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877254048     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2013.777302     Document Type: Article

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