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spir-8844	Gibbs, Martin; Nansen, Bjorn; Carter, Marcus; Kohn, Tamara	SELFIES AT FUNERALS: REMEDIATING RITUALS OF MOURNING	2014.0	5	.pdf	application/pdf	2023	90	48	Contextualizing the culture of funeral selfies Others frame the problem more broadly to suggest it is not simply a product of youth, but rather belongs to a contemporary western and increasingly secularized culture that has disengaged from death and emptied the grieving process of established rituals: “Our cultural traditions have failed them, and selfies at funerals are one of their only outlets to ritual and mourning in the age of the smartphone” (Doughty 2013). Given the waning of institutionalized mourning rituals in contemporary western societies (Margry & Sánchez-Carretero 2011; Wouters 2002), disentangling the vitriol from the vernacular in expressions of digital culture are needed if we are to adequately comprehend how funeral rituals are being remediated.	cache/spir-8844.pdf	txt/spir-8844.txt