Existential media: Toward a theorization of digital thrownness

Lagerkvist, Amanda

doi:10.1177/1461444816649921

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“…These are situations where people are utterly thrown into a new life situation, torn away from what they thought was safe and secure in life-an experience which today is often digitized and highly entangled with digital media and online practices (Lagerkvist, 2016). Besides the death of a child, homicide, and clearly unpredicted deaths, suicide is often stated as a disastrous event, where relatives and friends often search for answers and explanations as to why the suicide occurred (Neimeyer & Sands, 2011).…”

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The Usage of Digital Resources by Swedish Suicide Bereaved in Their Grief Work: A Survey Study

Westerlund

2018

Omega (Westport)

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This study examined Swedish suicide bereaved individuals' use of different resources in their grief work and how they value these resources. The material consisted of a web-based survey, which was analyzed with quantitative methods. The results showed that the psychosocial ill-health was severe among the suicide bereaved participants and that a majority used digital resources in their grief work. The propensity to engage in online support groups or memorial websites was not predicted by the severity of psychosocial consequences following the suicide. However, multiple regressions showed that higher online support group activity predicted more satisfaction with current psychosocial health, while memorial websites seemed to have the opposite effect. This study not only indicates that some digital resources, for example, online support groups, may be an effective way of coping with grief related to suicide loss, but also suggests that memorial websites may increase rumination and in this way cause emotional distress.

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The Usage of Digital Resources by Swedish Suicide Bereaved in Their Grief Work: A Survey Study

Westerlund

2018

Omega (Westport)

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“…The case study presented in this article shows, that social media platforms are able to form publics of existential and affective support (Lagerkvist: 2017;Peters: 2015) or more critically a public focused on progress, positivity and vital patienthood (Rose: 2006;Stacey: 1997). This public of followers should not be understood as a passive audience witnessing an individual telling 'her own story' but rather as crucial contributors to the social interaction and co-creation of desired narratives, subject positions, narrative progress, and tellability.…”

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Cancer narratives on social media as ‘small stories’

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2019

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Cancer narratives shared on social media platforms have received increased academic interest over the last decade but often without sufficiently acknowledging the media specific narrative affordances of these platforms. The article will address this problem, by first presenting a ‘small stories’ approach to studying illness narrative on social media and then putting the approach to work in a case study of a Danish cancer patient’s Instagram profile (@jannelivsnyder66). The paper argues, that the storytelling practices on the profile can be analytically approached by focusing on the interplay between three co-constitutive levels of interaction: 1) a level of the desired illness narrative and position that the narrator, influenced by available cultural discourses and interaction with followers, hopes to be able to tell; 2) a level of sharing everyday posts, which can either support or disturb the desired narrative; 3) a level of follower responses, where relations between the desired narrative and singular posts are monitored through processes of liking and commenting. Followers of social media cancer narratives should in light of this not be understood as an audience witnessing an individual telling his/her “own” story, but rather as crucial contributors to the social interaction and co-creation of desired narratives, subject positions, narrative progress and tellability. In conclusion, the article thus stresses that cancer storytelling on social media, despite the strong biological connection of the disease to an individual body, emerges through inherently social processes of reading, liking, commenting, monitoring and co-deciding narrative practices.

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“…Auf den ersten Blick könnte man meinen, die Digitalisierung hätte unsere Art, in der Welt zu sein, fundamental verändert (vgl. Lagerkvist 2017).…”

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Geographien digitaler Alltagskultur. Überlegungen zur Digitalisierung in Schule und Unterricht

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2019

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Die digitale Revolution ist nicht nur als technologisches, sondern gleichsam als soziales und kulturelles Phänomen zu betrachten. Der Artikel liefert dazu einen Überblick über theoretische Zugänge zu digitaler Kultur und stellt geographische Forschungsarbeiten mit einem soziokulturellen Fokus auf das Digitale vor. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden Schlussfolgerungen für die geographische Bildung in zweierlei Hinsicht diskutiert: Zum einen im Hinblick auf die Digitalisierung der Vermittlungspraxis der Lehrenden. Zum anderen mit Blick auf potentielle neue Unterrichtsthemen.

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Existential media: Toward a theorization of digital thrownness

Cited by 76 publications

References 40 publications

The Usage of Digital Resources by Swedish Suicide Bereaved in Their Grief Work: A Survey Study

The Usage of Digital Resources by Swedish Suicide Bereaved in Their Grief Work: A Survey Study

Cancer narratives on social media as ‘small stories’

Geographien digitaler Alltagskultur. Überlegungen zur Digitalisierung in Schule und Unterricht

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