Global Mediatized Death and Emotion: Parasocial Grieving—Mourning #stephenhawking on Twitter

Akhther, Najma; Tetteh, Dinah A.

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“…Journal articles represented most of the sample (n = 76; 85%), followed by theses (n = 9; 10%) [68,69,[85][86][87][88][89][90][91], and conference proceedings (n = 4; 5%) [92 -95]. The most prevalent academic disciplines of first authors included Communication (n = 27; 30%) [45,46,59,61,62,87,88,91,[95][96][97][98][99][100][101][102][103][104][105][106][107][108][109][110][111][112][113]. Psychology (n = 14; 16%) [20, 67, 74, 75, 79-81, 89, 114-119], Nursing (n = 7; 8%) [120][121][122][123][124][125], Sociology (n = 7; 8%) [43,44,66,77,…”

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“…Earlier publications investigated grief and mourning related to death more generally. Topics have since become much more tailored to include, for example, grief related to being a mother with cancer [124], and the phenomenon of mediatized death-the intense publicizing of someone's death on SM-which many times leads to parasocial grieving-public mourning for someone not personally known [64,65,96,107]. Access to data from SM appears to have facilitated a deeper understanding of areas of mourning that would not be easily researched using more traditional methods of data collection.…”

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How social media data are being used to research the experience of mourning: A scoping review

Spiti

Davies²,

McLiesh³

et al. 2022

PLoS ONE

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Background Increasingly, people are using social media (SM) to express grief, and researchers are using this data to investigate the phenomenon of mourning. As this research progresses, it is important to understand how studies are being conducted and how authors are approaching ethical challenges related to SM data. Objective The aim of this review was to explore how SM data are being used to research experiences of mourning through the following questions: a) ‘Which topics related to mourning are being studied?’; b) ‘What study designs have been used to analyse SM data’; c) ‘What type of data (natural or generated) have been used?’; and d) ‘How are ethical decisions being considered?’. Methods The JBI Scoping Review methodology guided this review. Eligibility criteria were determined using the PCC framework, and relevant key words and phrases derived from these criteria were used to search eight databases in September 2021 (CINAHL, Embase, LILACS, OpenGrey, ProQuest, PsycINFO, PubMed and Scopus). The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) guidelines were used to report the results of this review. Results Database searches resulted in 3418 records, of which, 89 met eligibility criteria. Four categories of grief and mourning were identified. Most records were qualitative in nature and used natural data. Only 20% of records reported ethics approval by an Institutional Review Board, with several including measures to protect participants, for example, using pseudonyms. Conclusions This unique review mapped the diverse range of mourning-related topics that have been investigated using SM data and highlighted the variability in approaches to data analysis. Ethical concerns relating to SM data collection are identified and discussed. This is an emerging and rapidly changing field of research that offers new opportunities and challenges for exploring the phenomenon of mourning.

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How social media data are being used to research the experience of mourning: A scoping review

Spiti

Davies²,

McLiesh³

et al. 2022

PLoS ONE

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“…Called communal digital grief, an entire community -even those who do not personally know the dead -offers condolences and participates in the mourning, thereby strengthening the belongingness of the bereaved, invoking emotions that they are not alone in their grieving (Babis, 2021). A similar concept related to this is parasocial grieving in which media, through its technological affordances, facilitates mourning for the dead with strangers [11]. Memorialized Facebook accounts have turned into an "alternative space to mourn that is public, collective, and with archival capabilities" [12].…”

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Fostering online communities through pakikiramay and pakikidalamhati on memorialized Facebook accounts

Venzon

Gopilan

2023

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Memorializing the dead through death rituals has inevitably permeated in online spaces. In particular, Facebook users have maximized the platform to commemorate the dead, thereby forming communal digital mourning. Hence, this paper investigates how Filipinos foster an online community through their online practices of the Filipino concept of pakikipagkapwa[one-of-us] in pakikiramay and pakikidalamhati. Guided by Virgilio Enriquez’s Sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology) and Rotman and Preece’s (2010) characteristics of online communities, this paper investigated 593 posts from 24 memorialized Facebook accounts using textual analysis. Findings reveal that pakikiramay [sympathizing with another] and pakikidalamhati [sharing the burden of mourning] expressed through practicing death rituals using the technological affordances of Facebook demonstrate that the bereaved has maintained company with the departed in life and in death (“I have been with you, and I will always be with you”). Communal digital grief affirms that the bereaved are never alone while in mourning (“We are together in mourning”).

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“…I n August 2020, the announcement of actor Chadwick Boseman's passing via his X (formerly Twitter) account became the mostliked X post to date, currently, with 6.8 million likes (Boseman 2020). Add 1.9 million reposts and a stream of comments, the post became not only an announcement of the news, but also a site of remembrance for friends and fans-a form of what has been termed parasocial grieving (Bingaman 2022(Bingaman [2020; Akhther and Tetteh 2021). 1 The benefits to this kind of communal grieving online stem from various opportunities presented by internetworks (Sofka 1997), including the removal of physical obstacles and temporal limitations, and the alleviation of isolation through collective support.…”

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Digital Death

Lapper

2024

Suomen Antropologi

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This paper reflexively unpicks digital ethnographic methods employed during ongoing online fieldwork on ‘digital deaths’. To do so, this research delves into the digital afterlife, exploring the fate of online traces and social media profiles after death, and how social media has changed our relationship with death and grieving. Anthropological studies of online death and grief faced new challenges even before COVID-19 moved research projects online. These include shared vulnerabilities and the ethnographer’s position, online field sites, omnipresent online traces and posthumous personhood, and ethical algorithms and duty to the dead. By transparently detailing my research methods whilst conducting research with Facebook and Instagram users navigating loss, this article contributes an honest and extensive debate on processes, challenges, ethics, and research collaboration. Guided by visual and media anthropology, I advocate for a set of methods rooted in shared anthropology (Rouch 1995) which fosters ongoing dialogue with participants. Thus, this article offers a new perspective on digital death, rooted in collaborative storytelling and reflexive methodologies, facilitating discussions on a still-contentious subject in certain societies. Leveraging the benefits of digital ethnography’s multi-sited nature, the research widens its geographical reach and comments on the sociocultural impacts of digital death. Keywords: digital afterlife, digital death, digital ethnography, social media, reflexive ethnography, shared anthropology, grief, methodology

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Global Mediatized Death and Emotion: Parasocial Grieving—Mourning #stephenhawking on Twitter

Cited by 11 publications

References 42 publications

How social media data are being used to research the experience of mourning: A scoping review

How social media data are being used to research the experience of mourning: A scoping review

Fostering online communities through pakikiramay and pakikidalamhati on memorialized Facebook accounts

Digital Death

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