Milestone Celebrations in the Age of Social Media - Performativity, Ritual, and Representation

Milestone Celebrations in the Age of Social Media traces the emergence and evolution of milestone celebrations in the digital era, from social media spectacles like promposals and gender-reveals to closure commemorations like divorce parties and living wakes.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Event Planning: Social Media Celebrations and Ritualized Trends
Chapter 2. Gender-Reveal Parties: Returning to a New Reveal
Chapter 3. The New Old-Fashioned: Promposals for the Social Media Generation
Chapter 4. The Guaranteed Yes: Pre-staged Productions of Online Marriage Proposals
Chapter 5. The End of an Error: The Divorce Party as Liberated Limen
Chapter 6. A Wake for the Living in the Death Café: Death Positivity in the Digital Era
Chapter 7. Party Like It's 2020: Celebrations and Social Media in the Pandemic

About the author

Carly Gieseler is associate professor in the Department of Performing and Fine Arts at York College, City University of New York.

Summary

Milestone Celebrations in the Age of Social Media traces the emergence and evolution of milestone celebrations in the digital era, from social media spectacles like promposals and gender-reveals to closure commemorations like divorce parties and living wakes.

Product details

• Authors: Carly Gieseler
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781666902501
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-250-1
• No. of pages: 158
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & cultural anthropology, Gender studies, gender groups