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“We are a United Humanity”: Death, Emotion and Digital Media in the Church of Sweden

Hutchings, Timothy

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Abstract

© 2017 Broadcast Education Association. This article seeks to bring together the study of death, digital media, emotion and religion, using a Christian organization as a case study. The Swedish national church (Svenska kyrkan) has a large but declining membership and uses digital media extensively. We will analyze two of its attempts to respond to grief through media: a hybrid digital-physical technology installation in Swedish cemeteries and a series of posts about death and sadness on Facebook. In both projects, the Church presents emotion as a universal shared experience that unites all humanity, using this discourse to bring together its religious and non-religious audiences.

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Hutchings, T. (2017). “We are a United Humanity”: Death, Emotion and Digital Media in the Church of Sweden. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 61(1), 90-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2016.1273930

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 1, 2017
Online Publication Date Mar 7, 2017
Publication Date Jan 2, 2017
Deposit Date Aug 20, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
Print ISSN 0883-8151
Electronic ISSN 1550-6878
Publisher Routledge
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 61
Issue 1
Pages 90-107
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2016.1273930
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1411529
Publisher URL https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08838151.2016.1273930