Social media has transformed not only how we mourn, but what mourning even is.
Within minutes of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris catching fire Monday afternoon, people all across the world started posting their own photos of the church on social media. Mostly vacation photos, they showed the iconic building from a series of familiar angles, some from inside its nave and apse, but most from the public square out front.
n element of a culture or system of behavior passed from one individual to another by imitation or other non-genetic means." Describing something you like as"clutch" is a meme, just as"cool" was half a century ago. Waving hello is a meme. Saying"all the things" is a meme. And so, this week, is posting images of Notre Dame.
in real time – a show about them 'being in the moment' in what amounted to a worldwide improv. Celebrities all, celebrities at last." How does such hypermediation affect our perceptions of terrible events? And when we add likes, loves, upvotes and comments to such a constellation of mediated realities, where does that leave us with respect to the public and collective performance of mourning such terrible events? Indeed, as when Princess Di passed, is it even mourning?
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