Ceremonial Society

This article is written as part of one of the courses of the BA Online Culture: Art, Media and Society or the MA Online Culture at Tilburg University. Click on the link for more info on the courses and the programme.

In this international Bachelor’s program Online Culture: Art, Media and Society (Culture Studies) the focus is on digital culture and (new) media. From disciplines such as cultural studies and media studies you study how digitalization and globalization influence our way of living. You discuss new ways of communication, art expressions as well as (social) media expressions like memes and trolls. You research how such ways of communication and expressions are established and how they manifest in, and have influence on a society that increasingly takes place online. Additionally, you actively contribute to digital culture by writing papers and opinion pieces for our own online platform Diggit Magazine.

The digital tomb: Facebook memorialized accounts

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Tatsuya Ishikawa

31/05/2019

What will happen to Facebook accounts for those who passed away? You will have alternative tomb in digital space: Facebook memorialized accounts

John Mellencamp, If I Die Sudden (2008)

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eren kaletzik

30/05/2019

In this article the correlation between My Death period and the song "If I Die Sudden" by John Mellencamp will be analyzed.

The Funeral of The Legend

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My Pham

13/08/2019

In his book Western Attitudes Toward Death, Philippe Aries suggested four phases of Death in human history from the Middle Ages to 20th century. However, beyond that interpretation, there is the new type of death named Spectacular Death, typical in late 20th and early 21st century.

Avicii

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Jelske van Es

11/06/2019

Avicii and the period of "spectacular death."

Avril Lavigne, Slipped Away (2004)

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Annika Platz

30/05/2019

Death is a part of everyone’s lives and there are different expressions for dealing with it. Ariès, a french historian, established four death mentalities that are linked to historical periods. Here I will prove how these death mentalities are still relevant in the 21st century, by showing how Avril Lavigne's expression is linked to one of Ariès four death mentalities.

Over Her Dead Body (2008)

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Merel Blesgr

30/05/2019

How the movie "Over Her Dead Body" (2008) is a classic example of the death mentality referred to as "My Death" by Philippe Ariès.

Mark Romanek, Never let me go (2010).

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Idhuna Pastoor

30/05/2019

This item shows the relevance of Philippe Ariès' fourth death mentality - the forbidden death - by connecting it to the movie 'Never let me go' (2010).

David Frankel, Collateral Beauty (2016)

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Federica Morgandi

30/05/2019

Collateral Beauty is a movie that exemplifies the death mentality typical of the 21st Century. An analysis is made, using the literature by Ariès and Jacobsen, which is still relevant in the 21st century.