Digital Gravescapes: Digital Memorializing on Facebook

Information Society

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 184-189

  Church, Scott H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

death; digital media; discourse; eulogy; Facebook; gravescapes; memorializing; rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877310504     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2013.777309     Document Type: Article

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