Citation

Christensen DR, Gotved S. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia 2015; 21(1-2): 1-9.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015)

DOI

10.1080/13614568.2015.988455

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Abstract

Over the last decades, death, dying, and (online) bereavement culture in the Western world have constituted a growing field of attention in the academic world. The December 2014 Special Issue on Online Memorial Culture is based on selected proceedings from the First International Death Online Research Symposium, held at the Durham University, England, 9?10 April 2014. Deborah Whitehead's case study of an American evangelical woman's blog community ('?The story God is weaving us into': Narrativizing grief, faith, and infant loss in U.S. evangelical women's blog communities') has a focus on how these women are grieving infant loss and using the language of faith to find solace and offer support. Louis Bailey, Jo Bell and David Kennedy ('Continuing Social Presence of the Dead: Exploring Suicide Bereavement through Online Memorialisation') look at parents' loss, however, in relation to the death of older children. Korina Giaxoglou ('Entextualising mourning on Facebook: stories of grief as resources for meaning-making with and for networked mourners') looks into a single R.I.P. (Rest in Peace) Facebook page made for an American student who died a few days before graduation.

Language: en

Keywords

Internet; England; Social networking (online); Online research; Facebook; Durham University; Facebook pages; Meaning makings; Social presence