Media Representations of Death and the Issues Involved in the Construction of the Event

Abstract

This text has two goals. Firstly, it aims to define the parameters concerning the issue of discussing death and presents the articles making up this volume. Secondly, it attempts to provide an overview (a sort of progress report) of all of the articles comprising Volumes 19 and 20 of Questions de communication devoted to media representations and re-presentations of death. Discussing death ‘Discussing’ the subject of death is a very different matter from that addressed in the previous volume...