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This volume examines journalism and memorialization in the age of social media, with a particular emphasis on communication in times of crisis. Recognizing that individuals are sharing more actively than ever before, this book investigates the implications of this emerging practice for journalism and mass communication. Peter Joseph Gloviczki is Assistant Professor of Communication at Coker College, USA.

This volume examines the rise of online memorial groups - virtual communities formed in the aftermath of tragic events - speaking to the notion that individual expression has become more visible and ubiquitous than ever before within a communication context. The book asserts the audience as decidedly active with users seeking a robust platform for expression and takes particular care to consider the central role of communication technology in the ways that individuals are remembering and forgetting in the aftermath of crises. This emerging social practice has profound implications for journalists, journalism scholars, and journalism educators.

In this essay, I braid media coverage of poet and environmentalist Wendell Berry into autoethnographic exploration. In doing so, I hope readers consider ways to layer ethnographic approaches into/onto critical/cultural studies.

In this essay, I use autoethnographic exploration to grapple with the critical/cultural studies approach in the work of Gaston Bachelard. I look to anchor past, present, and future with a Bachelardian conceptualization of time in mind.

This short essay considers media events in culture, turning toward the poststructuralist moment of spectacle as performance. I especially consider how images consolidate power. Employing a Debordian theoretical framework, I work to make sense of the importance of scrutinizing the content and context in which images are placed in the media environment.

I explore the pleasures of rereading Lapham on McLuhan after 17 years, with an eye toward the evolving and enduring elements of mediated society. Situated with a critical-cultural and embodied lens for sensemaking, I focus on the fixed and fluid capacities of and for interpretation.

In this autoethnography, I consider how bodies interact with the structural affordances around them. I hope this work encourages other scholars to engage the corporeal realities in their lifeworlds.

In this autoethnographic postcard, I recall the impact of mediation on early formation of my lifeworld. I hope this article encourages others to consider how personal memory engages growth and development within and beyond everyday life.

In this autoethnography, I focus on listening as an act that encourages a process of being rooted in a multicultural identity. Listening across languages, cultures, and places helps reveal commonalities that might have otherwise remained unexamined. I hope this short paper motivates others to unpack the ways that seemingly disparate forces may help influence media consumption in everyday life.

In this autoethnography, I examine silence and its role in the communication world. I believe silence is especially worthy of investigation in a networked world that is at least somewhat devoid of opportunities to pause. In this way, I hope this short paper helps other scholars take up fuller consideration of silence as an active element within and beyond the communication world.

I am fascinated by the potential for moments to reveal broader themes within media and everyday life. In this short article, I use autoethnography to explore the aural ritual of listening to a memorial tribute to media celebrities on nightly television news. I hope this article encourages others to use sensory investigation as a methodological tool within the autoethnographic tradition in communication research.

In this article, I use an autoethnographic sketch to explore the relationship between interpersonal bonds and identity construction.