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'Bringing together an extraordinary breadth of disciplines and case studies, this fascinating volume addresses the mediation and mediatization of death, covering Tibetan self-immolations, the Utoya tragedy, Sarajevo and Gaddafi's public death. An engaging and valuable contribution to death and media studies alike.' Hannah Rumble, University of Aberdeen, UK Mediating and Remediating Death is a significant contribution to the broadly sociological literature on death. With its unusual focus on media and materials, its sophisticated take on media, and its dedication to locate death socially, culturally and politically, it will be an important source for scholars and students in the area of death studies.'Arnar Arnason, University of Aberdeen, UK'I have been waiting for a book that takes the study of death into a complete media theory framework. This book has arrived. Mediating and Remediating Death brings together diverse and fascinating original case studies with a coherence, depth, and clarity rarely achieved in a many-authored book.' Margaret Gibson, Griffith University, Australia

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Dorthe Refslund Christensen is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark and co-editor of the series Studies in Death, Materiality and Time. She is co-editor of Taming Time Timing Death: Social Technologies and Ritual, the first volume in the Studies in Death, Materiality and Time series. Kjetil Sandvik is Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is head of the Cross Media Communication study program and the research project Meaning Across Media: Cross media communication and co-creation.

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