The Insta-Dead: The rhetoric of the human remains trade on Instagram
There is a thriving trade, and collector community, around human remains that is facilitated by posts on new social media such as Instagram, Facebook, Etsy, and, until recently, eBay. In this article, we examine several thousand Instagram posts and perform some initial text analysis on the language...
Main Authors: | Damien Huffer, Shawn Graham |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of York
2017-07-01
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Series: | Internet Archaeology |
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Online Access: | http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue45/5/index.html |
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