The Living and the Dead: Community in the Virtual Cemetery

2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Continuing Bonds ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Web

Rheingold (1993) and others have described the potential for increased connectedness and community in cyberspace, but critics have charged that the Web increases social isolation rather than fostering interpersonal relationships. The present article explores how creating and visiting Web memorials (activities that initially appear isolating) affect the bereaved. Data from three studies on Web memorialization (descriptions of Web memorials, guestbook entries, and a survey of Web memorial authors) are used to examine three aspects of bereavement community: continuing bonds with the dead, strengthening existing relationships among the living, and creating new communities of the bereaved in cyberspace. Analysis suggests that rather than serving as a poor substitute for traditional bereavement activities, Web memorialization is a valued addition, allowing the bereaved to enhance their relationship with the dead and to increase and deepen their connections with others who have suffered a loss.

Qumran Yahad and Rabbinic Hăbûrâ: A Comparison Reconsidered

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-453
Author(s):  
Steven D. Fraade
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Dead Sea Scrolls ◽  
Dead Sea ◽  
Rabbinic Literature ◽  
Developmental Progression ◽  
Historical Reconstructions ◽  
Historical Relationship ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Communal Organization

AbstractSince soon after the initial discoveries and publications of the Dead Sea Scrolls, scholars have compared the Yahad of the scrolls with the Hăbûrâ of early rabbinic literature and sought to establish a historical relationship and developmental progression between the two types of communal organization. The present article reviews select but representative examples from such scholarship, seeking to reveal their underlying presumptions and broader implications, while questioning whether the available evidence allows for the sorts of sociological comparisons and historical reconstructions that they adduce.

The distinctiveness of author interdisciplinarity: A long-neglected issue in research on interdisciplinarity

2020 ◽  
pp. 016555152093949
Author(s):  
Wenyu Zhang ◽  
Shunshun Shi ◽  
Xiaoling Huang ◽  
Shuai Zhang ◽  
Peijia Yao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Similarity Measure ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
Diversity Measure ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Network Similarity ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Web

In the research on interdisciplinarity (RID), measures for evaluating the interdisciplinarity of scientific entities (e.g., papers, authors, journals or research areas) have been proposed for a long time. The author interdisciplinarity is very different from the other types of interdisciplinarity because of the complex interpersonal relationships between the connected authors. However, previous work has failed to uncover the distinctiveness of author interdisciplinarity and has regarded it as equivalent to other types of interdisciplinarity. In this work, an extended Rao–Stirling diversity measure is proposed, which incorporates the co-author network and a network similarity measure to specifically evaluate the author interdisciplinarity. Moreover, betweenness centrality is used for improving network similarity measure, because of its intrinsic advantage of expressing how an entity loads on different factors in a network, which is highly in line with the characteristic of interdisciplinarity. An experiment on the papers about Public Administration in the Web of Science is conducted; based on the final results, a deeper investigation is performed into by typical authors. The work proposes a novel idea for measuring author interdisciplinarity, which can promote the study of interdisicplinarity measuring in RID.

scholarly journals Feminisms on the web: lines and forms of action in contemporary feminist debate*

Cadernos Pagu ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 199-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Branco de Castro Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Social Space ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Expression ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Strategies ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The Web

The present article seeks to understand the uses of the internet as a space for action and reflection among feminist groups in the Brazilian scene. It takes as its focus the relationships between new feminist generations and esthetics and the social space of the internet. Several feminist groups have emphasized the use of the internet and social networks as relevant platforms for organization, news and political expression. I thus take as my object of analysis one of the most important blogs in the Brazilian context: Blogueiras Feministas (Feminist Bloggers - BF), seeking to use this as an ethnographic resource in order to understand the set of actors and collectives working within this feminist scenario, as well as the spaces and social, political and cultural strategies that appear within it.

Are Galaxies and Elementary Particles Real? Objects, Reality, Space and Time. An ISST Forum

KronoScope ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 91-107
Author(s):  
Rémy Lestienne
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Present Article ◽  
International Society ◽  
Physical Theory ◽  
Niels Bohr ◽  
Large Structures ◽  
Real Objects ◽  
Microscopic World ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Web

AbstractWhat is an object? What conditions declare it to be “real”? When can a concept, that has been proposed in a physical theory to describe our observations, be declared “physical” or, in other words, to be an element of reality? These questions pertain to the old debate between idealism and realism. In the last decades, the discussion was principally fuelled by the development of Quantum Mechanics, and particularly by the study of the process of measurement and the development of the concept of complementarity by Niels Bohr and the School of Copenhagen. In a few pages taken from The View from the Center of the Universe, Joel Primack and Nancy Abrams propose to limit the use of the concept of existence not only toward the microscopic world but also toward the very large structures of the Universe. This moves us to reopen the Pandora's Box, in a way in which the consideration of Time may play a fundamental role, as Whitehead, for example, insisted on. However, the interrogation seems to drift necessarily towards a reflection onto the concept of emergence and its relation with time. The present article is the end product of a three month's long Forum opened in February 2008 by the initiator among members of the International Society for the Study of Time, onto the “Gnomon” zone of the web site of the Association. Contributions from Nancy Abrams, Mark Aultman, Troy Camplin, Julius T. Fraser, Paul Harris, Marcel Le Bel, Jean Lette, Carlos Montemayor, Giovanni Vicario and Amrit Srecko Sorli were particularly beneficial to the discussion.

The New Forms of Mourning: Loss and Exhibition of the Death on the Internet

2016 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 280-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Alev Dilmaç
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Common Currency ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Funeral Practices ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Modern Technologies ◽  
The Web

According to some specialists, ceremonial funeral practices are inclined to disappear, particularly as death is an object of repression in contemporary society. However, it seems that new forms of rituals are developing through modern technologies. Virtual tombs, memorial webpages, and the celebration of death anniversaries are now common currency on the Internet. Nonetheless, the overexposure favored by the Web seems to question traditional ways of “living out” one’s grief, subjecting the living and the dead to a redefinition of concepts of time and space, and entailing new forms of interaction.

scholarly journals A People-as-Means Approach to Interpersonal Relationships

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Orehek ◽  
Amanda L. Forest ◽  
Nicole Barbaro
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Goal Pursuit ◽  
Relationship Formation ◽  
Relationship Processes

Interpersonal relationships and goal pursuit are intimately interconnected. In the present article, we present a people-as-means perspective on relationships. According to this perspective, people serve as means to goals—helping other people to reach their goals in a variety of ways, such as by contributing their time; lending their knowledge, skills, and resources; and providing emotional support and encouragement. Because people serve as means to goals, we propose that considering relationship processes in terms of the principles of goal pursuit can provide novel and important insights into the ways that people think, feel, and behave in these interpersonal contexts. We describe the principles of means-goals relations, review evidence for each principle involving people as means, and discuss implications of our approach for relationship formation, maintenance, and dissolution.

Grief, Consolation, and Religions: A Conceptual Framework

2014 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Klass
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Continuing Bonds ◽  
Abstract Architecture ◽  
Religious Resources ◽  
Space Material ◽  
Subjective Space

Consolation is grief's traditional amelioration, but contemporary bereavement theory lacks a conceptual framework to include it. The article begins to develop that framework. The article argues that grief is inter-subjective, even at the biological level. Consolation and grief happen in the same inter-subjective space. Material from the histories of several religions sets the article in a cross-cultural and historical environment. The article examines consolation in interpersonal relationships, and then moves to consolation in cultural/religious resources that range from the literal image of God as an idealized parent to the abstract architecture of Brahm's Requiem. The most common consolation in the histories of religions comes within continuing bonds that are accessed in a wide variety of beliefs, rituals, and devotional objects. The article closes by briefly drawing the connection between consolation and faith.

scholarly journals Puhetta kuolleelle

2017 ◽  
pp. 6-21
Author(s):  
Anna Hollsten
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Bonds ◽  
Dead Person ◽  
Male Speaker ◽  
The Dead ◽  
To Come ◽  
Present Life ◽  
Dominant Paradigm

Speaking to the Dead: Poetic Address and Continuing Attachment in Elegies by Paavo Haavikko, Aale Tynni, and Anja Vammelvuo This article focuses on the addressment of the deceased in Finnish elegies from the late 1960s and the early 70s written by Paavo Haavikko, Aale Tynni and Anja Vammelvuo to commemorate their spouses. Until recently, the psychoanalytical theory of grief has been in uential among scholars of elegy. This article, however, aims to revise this dominant paradigm by applying a more up-to-date understanding of grief – the continuing bonds model – to the study of elegiac poetry. In contrast to the psychoanalytical theory of grief, the continuing bonds model emphasizes that relationships with the deceased are continued rather than abandoned; people do not recover from experience of loss, rather, the mourner renegotiates his or her relationship to the deceased. In the elegies analysed in this article, addressing the deceased is used to express the mourning speaker’s experiences of presence as well as the absence of the person passed. The differences in coping with and expressing grief are partly connected to gender in the analysed poems; Haavikko’s male speaker is more reluctant to openly grieve than Tynni’s and Vammelvuo’s female speakers, who beg their spouses to come back and who can feel the presence – and in Vammelvuo’s case, even the touch of the deceased. However, in all these cases the speakers try to make sense of their continuing relationship to the dead person in their present life.

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