RELATIONS AND PROHIBITIONS OF THE PHENOMENON OF DEATH AND OLD AGE ON THE INTERNET
Keywords:
old age, internet, death, prohibition, media, mourningAbstract
The paper deals with internet users who are socially categorized as old people and with their relation to the phenomena of death and mourning in the digital sphere. Researching thesis about the prohibition of death in the contemporary world, it is shown how this kind of tabooization is spread to the process of aging, as well as the mere category of an old age, which is connected to the ideas of illness, poverty and the end of life. With this comes the clear discrimination of old age in contemporary Serbian society and its media. The paper looks into the scientific ideas about these problems, and then shows the results of the research. The posts of Serbian “older population” (retired people and those over 65 years of age) on social network Facebook are analyzed in order to see the way it relates to the death and mortality inside the internet space. Additionally, it asks the question extent to which we can talk about the posthumous dying or digital immortality of the virtual identities of this population, as well as if the internet erases or amplifies these prohibitions.
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