Entextualising mourning on Facebook: stories of grief as acts of sharing

Γιαξόγλου, Κορίνα

doi:10.1080/13614568.2014.983560

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“…Ultrasound sharing is also a very social experience, curating moments of great joy. While platforms like Facebook offer specific memorialisation processes in addition to individual expressions of grief (Giaxoglou, 2015;Kohn et al, 2012;Marwick & Ellison, 2012;Pennington, 2014), mourning on Instagram is not collated in a single bespoke online space. Moreover, the specificities of Instagram reveal approaches to mourning, at least within the funeral context, that are far more about articulating the mourner's emotional state in their own social media spaces rather than eulogising or attempting to shape the deceased person's online legacy.…”

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Visualising the ends of identity: pre-birth and post-death on Instagram

Leaver

Highfield

2016

Information, Communication & Society

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confidence: 99%

“…To date, most studies examining death and mourning on social media have focused on Facebook (Giaxoglou, 2015;Kohn, Nansen, Arnold, & Gibbs, 2012;Pennington, 2014) or now largely defunct platforms such as MySpace (e.g. Brubaker & Hayes, 2011).…”

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Visualising the ends of identity: pre-birth and post-death on Instagram

Leaver

Highfield

2016

Information, Communication & Society

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“…For example, Demjén (this volume, and 2015), examines the journals of Sylvia Plath using corpus and metaphor analysis to discover ways in which depression is represented and may be recognised through particular language choices. Others have applied narrative analysis to ways of dealing with grief (Giaxoglou 2015), and discourse analysis to understanding and support for carers of those with dementia (Wray n.d.). The focus in these cases is on using linguistic analyses to understand a phenomenon and then to disseminate the findings to those for whom it has value and who may usefully be able to apply it in their own situations.…”

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An introduction to English language studies

Seargeant¹,

Hewings²,

Pihlaja³

2018

The Routledge Handbook of English Language Studies

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There is a strong argument that the study of language is crucial to the study of almost anything. As the most flexible and extensive means of communication that humans possess, language mediates all our social relationships, plays a part in all our social interactions, and is the foundational element of our civilization as a species. The cognitive revolution that took place one hundred thousand years ago, and which marked the evolution of language in homo sapiens, set humankind on a path to intellectual pre-eminence amongst the rest of the animal kingdom. The invention of writing five millennia ago gave our ancestors a reliable means of recording and accruing knowledge, of passing it from generation to generation, and of creating complex and expansive societies. Language, as has often been remarked, is an essential part of what makes us human. Language is also an endlessly complicated phenomenon. The processes that allow a child, with no formal education and with limited input, to learn to speak within two to three years of being born, are still not fully understood, and remain an area of intense academic controversy. Yet despite this complexity, communicative competence is something we nearly all master in the first few years of our life, and which we mostly take for granted throughout adulthood. And it is this paradox of language's complexity and importance versus its familiarity and the instinctive mastery we have over it, that leads to something of an identity complex for Language Studies as a subject. Add to this the fact that because everyone has a practical expertise in it, they also feel they have some sort of theoretical expertise in itat least in so far as making pronouncements about its nature and status goesand the necessity of studying it is considered far less than its importance in all aspects of our life would seem to merit.

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“…On social media, the memory of the departed, Dilmaç argues, which is by definition part of the past, is changed into a "dynamic memory" which is constantly updated (Dilmaç, 2016, p. 9 Psychologically and socially, memorialised profile pages and R.I.P pages can provide the bereft with a sense of connectedness with the community of mourners, and help in the process of sense making, providing communal spaces for expressions of sadness, shock, loss, and love (Carroll & Landry, 2010;Giaxoglou, 2015;Hård Af Segerstad & Kasperowski, 2015;Williams & Merten, 2009). The emerging body of research into celebrity mourning published indicate that it is exactly these shared spaces which are attractive for fans mourning a celebrity.…”

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Death and Communal Mass-Mourning: Vin Diesel and the Remembrance of Paul Walker

Klastrup

2018

Social Media + Society

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This article examines Vin Diesel's use of his public Facebook Page to mourn the loss of his friend and co-actor Paul Walker in the period from 2013-2015. It discusses how Vin Diesel performed his grief and how his mourning process was communally reflected and repeated by both Vin Diesel and Walker fans, who used Vin Diesel's page to share and verbalise their own feelings of loss in a both public and safe space. An analysis of Vin Diesel's own status updates and 1800 comments reacting to three popular status updates related to the death of Paul Walk posted over the course of more than a year show that commentary was used to make condolences to both Vin Diesel and Walker's familes and to affectively express the users' immediate feelings, both verbally and through the use of emojis. However, over time, both the form and intensity of expression of both Vin Diesel and his followers changed, pointing to the need to further study celebrity mourning processes on social media over extended periods of time.

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Entextualising mourning on Facebook: stories of grief as acts of sharing

Cited by 27 publications

References 31 publications

Visualising the ends of identity: pre-birth and post-death on Instagram

Visualising the ends of identity: pre-birth and post-death on Instagram

An introduction to English language studies

Death and Communal Mass-Mourning: Vin Diesel and the Remembrance of Paul Walker

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