ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on the media's picturing of the dead as alive, with its desire to show family photos to media's mass audience. The family photographs are objects caught up in a number of specific practices, and they can have powerful effects as a consequence. To the extent that photography and other critics have given them any sustained attention, it is their role in reproducing very particular visions of the family that has been emphasised. The house becomes a family home because the presence of 'family' in photograph, framed on the wall or bookcase, becomes a presence in the house. The book's discussion of the domestic spaces and the various familial circulations of family snaps also imply that it is crucial, at a time of rapid technological change, to be careful about over generalising the ways in which such changes are actually happening.
