Archive for the ‘Monuments + Memorials’ Category
Tenth Circuit: Utah Highway Crosses Violate Establishment Clause Clifford M. Marks, Wall Street Journal Law Blog (August 19, 2010) Roadside memorials involving religious symbols — invariably Christian crosses — have long caused controversy regarding their legality with the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, also known as the separation of church and state. Because roads [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + the Law|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: religion, roadside memorials
Social Networking’s Sudden Morbidity and Mortality
16, Aug 2010Twitter. And Facebook. And death. Future Tense with John Moe, American Public Media (August 16, 2010) Just recently, Twitter announced new guidelines on what it will do when a user dies. Twitter now joins the ranks of Facebook and Myspace in coming up with policies for dead members. We here at Death Ref have been [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Technology|Death + the Web|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: Facebook, memorializing, twitter
1000Memories, a Thousand Possibilities
13, Aug 2010Despite the option of putting a deceased Facebook user’s account into memorial mode (and necessity, to avoid suggestions to “reconnect”), Facebook is for the living. That’s okay. Social media sites weren’t intended to handle death, and only years after their inceptions recognized the dilemma and developed related policies, as Kim’s last post explains. But now [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + the Web|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: memorializing, online memorials
Dead Netizen
12, Aug 2010There’s been much talk of late about what happens to your online social connections, not to mention your email and all the other ways you exist virtually, after you die. With Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and others there’s you and then there’s virtual you. As more and more people join the virtual you ranks, the implementation [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Death + the Law|Death + the Web|Death Ethics|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: Facebook, twitter
Valerie’s New York interview with John Troyer on Memorial Tattoos WOR 710 AM (August 4, 2010) Here is the link for the radio interview I did on with Valerie Smaldone on Valerie’s New York . I start discussing Memorial Tattoos about 17:30 minutes into the interview. The piece before me is on an event promoter [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Popular Culture|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: lecture, memorial tattoos, memorializing