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Together or Apart? Some questions raised by the broadcasting of funeral services during the Covid-19 pandemic
Date Issued
2021-08-03
Date Available
2021-08-30T15:07:43Z
Abstract
On January 2021 a thousand people watched a funeral Mass streamed live on University College Dublin’s YouTube channel: the funeral Mass of "Old man Belfield", an intensely private individual who lived on the campus of Ireland's largest university for over 30 years, rarely speaking to anyone. This piece takes this, and similar events, as a starting point to explore how new online media forms may impact the representation of social life while simultaneously affording new forms of social connections and disconnections. Although questions about the role of media platforms like YouTube in everyday life are not new – is YouTube the new television? (Ha, 2018) – Covid-19 has amplified their significance. Our focus is on Ireland, but we believe the issues raised here are of wider relevance.
Sponsorship
Health Research Board
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
Sociological Review Foundation
Journal
The Sociological Review Magazine
Volume
August 2021
Copyright (Published Version)
2021 the Authors
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
ISSN
2754-1371
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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