In Paris and around the world, fans are mourning Michael Jackson and tuning in to his memorial service at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles today. (Photo: http://contexts.org/)
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson's death 2.0: The modern mourning of an icon
As someone for whom Michael Jackson’s music is a major groove in the soundtrack of my life, I feel a certain amount of emotionality about his passing. As a pop culture freak, I reel over the relevance of this death. And as a communications practitioner, I am rapt by the coverage and consumption of it all.
