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Katherine Verdery (1999) suggests that funerals always create an audience of mourners who recognize the dead and their significance. By the same token, they create and recreate communities around mourning. When funerals are circulated online, putative audiences multiply.
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Huttunen, L. (2016). Remembering, Witnessing, Bringing Closure: Srebrenica Burial Ceremonies on YouTube. In: Hajek, A., Lohmeier, C., Pentzold, C. (eds) Memory in a Mediated World. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137470126_15
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