Culture, disorder, and death in an online world

Marshall, JP

Culture, disorder, and death in an online world

Marshall, JP

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Citation:: Cross-Cultural Interaction: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications, 2014, 2 pp. 1010 - 1026
Issue Date:: 2014-01-31

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dc.contributor.author	Marshall, JP https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3914-7697	en_US
dc.date.issued	2014-01-31	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Cross-Cultural Interaction: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications, 2014, 2 pp. 1010 - 1026	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	1466649798	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781466649798	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/40228
dc.description.abstract	© 2014 by IGI Global. All rights reserved. Death strikes everywhere, even online. Death poses problems personally, existentially, and culturally, and is potentially destructive to person and group. Yet many social theories of death posit some kind of social integration as normal, downplaying the potential for disorder. This chapter explores how people on the internet mailing list, Cybermind, dealt with death on two occasions: firstly, just after the group's founding, and secondly, when the group had been established for eight years, and was in crisis. On both occasions the group was rocked by the deaths, and struggled to make a meaningful and ongoing mailing list culture out of parts of offline culture, while transforming that culture within the constraints and ambiguities of List Life. This was a disorderly exploratory process, which verged on disintegration. Social disorder cannot be seen as simply pathological or an error; it is a vital part of cultural processes and must be taken seriously in itself.	en_US
dc.relation	http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0880853
dc.relation.ispartof	Cross-Cultural Interaction: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.4018/978-1-4666-4979-8.ch057	en_US
dc.title	Culture, disorder, and death in an online world	en_US
dc.type	Chapter
utslib.citation.volume	2	en_US
utslib.for	1601 Anthropology	en_US
utslib.for	1608 Sociology	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/e-Press
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Public Communication Program
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pubs.volume	2	en_US

Abstract:

© 2014 by IGI Global. All rights reserved. Death strikes everywhere, even online. Death poses problems personally, existentially, and culturally, and is potentially destructive to person and group. Yet many social theories of death posit some kind of social integration as normal, downplaying the potential for disorder. This chapter explores how people on the internet mailing list, Cybermind, dealt with death on two occasions: firstly, just after the group's founding, and secondly, when the group had been established for eight years, and was in crisis. On both occasions the group was rocked by the deaths, and struggled to make a meaningful and ongoing mailing list culture out of parts of offline culture, while transforming that culture within the constraints and ambiguities of List Life. This was a disorderly exploratory process, which verged on disintegration. Social disorder cannot be seen as simply pathological or an error; it is a vital part of cultural processes and must be taken seriously in itself.

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