Mourning on Mobile Media
Everyday Affective Witnessing
$120.52
- Paperback
200 pages
- Release Date
16 December 2025
Summary
How our mourning rituals on mobile media reflect our social, cultural and emotional lives.
From Instagram eulogies of human and animal kin to witnessing mass human destruction on TikTok, mobile media practices play a significant role in contemporary grieving, memorializing, and mourning rituals in an age of permanent crisis. Our devices bear witness to the intimate, affective, embodied, and collective ways we mourn in, and through, contemporary media. In Mourning on Mobile Media
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262553551 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262553554 |
| Author: | Larissa Hjorth |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 16 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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“Hjorth’s unique ‘more-than-human’ perspective on mourning is a vital contribution to media studies. This book is essential reading for anyone trying to understand contemporary media and the collective grief experienced from global pandemics, environmental crises, and natural disasters.”
—Lee Humphreys, Professor and Chair, Department of Communication, Cornell University; author of The Qualified Self: Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life
“With generosity and care for the griefs of ecological crisis, Larissa Hjorth illuminates the complex affectivities of witnessing and mourning in this urgently needed and all-too-timely book.”
—Michael Richardson, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales; author of Nonhuman Witnessing: War, Data, and Ecology After the End of the World
About The Author
Larissa Hjorth
Larissa Hjorth is Distinguished Professor in the School of Media & Communication at RMIT University.
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