Webthis study examines online obituary pages at nine major u. s. Daily newspapers seeking to understand how these sites use new technologies, and how they publicly portray. Webthis article explores the cultural form of the obituary as a contribution to ‘collective memory’. In order to assess the value of viewing the obituary through this lens, it is. Webthe first serious academic study of obituaries, this book focuses on how societies remember. Bridget fowler makes great use of the theories of pierre bordieu,. Webresearch into obituaries repeatedly reveals that print memorialisation is strongly tied to an individual’s cultural, economic, or social capital (connerton, citation. Webstudies of collective memory address how people create and maintain a shared representation of their group’s past and group identity. In particular, we conside how. Webwe analyzed 52 suicide loss obituaries retrieved from legacy. com, an online obituary aggregator, to determine how they differ from what we know about. Webso, there is evidence that the obituary as collective memory is in need of editing, and that process might be turned to its structure as well as to its rendition.
