“…Bulck & Larsson, 2017;Courbet & Courbet, 2014;Gil-Egui, Kern-stone, & Forman, 2016;Harju, 2015;Radford & Bloch, 2012;Sanderson & Cheong, 2010;Walter, 2011), attention has so far been focused on memorial pages created by fans or the mourning of a celebrity on for instance Twitter, and the phenomena of mourning with a celebrity on his Facebook page has not yet been explored. Therefore, The Vin Diesel case may provide useful new insights into the interplay between fandom, affect, and the emerging practice of parasocial mourning on social media (see Klastrup, 2011Klastrup, , 2015DeGroot & Leith, 2015;Gil-Egui et al, 2016).…”