How Has Social Media Changed the Way We Grieve?

Lapper, Ellen; Frömming, Urte Undine; Köhn, Steffen; Fox, Samantha; Terry, Michael

doi:10.14361/9783839434970-010

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“…Broadly speaking, the privacy paradox describes how quite often people's intentions concerning privacy do not align with their behaviour (Kokolakis 2017;Kasket 2019). Previous research revealed that some Facebook users were critical of sharing grief online, certain that it was attention-seeking (Lapper 2017), which correlates with Spyros Kokolakis's (2017: 1) research on the phenomenon: 'individuals reveal personal information for relatively small rewards, often just for drawing the attention of peers in an online social network.' However, my previous research (2017) simultaneously revealed that several participants found sharing grief online to be a comfortable outlet as it helped elicit consoling responses and share memories of a late individual, as can also be seen here.…”

Section: Public Vs Privatementioning

confidence: 84%

“…Death is social (Walter et al 2011); thus, much research has focused on the communication of a death online across various platforms, from blogs and social media sites (DeGroot and Carmack 2012;Brubaker, Hayes and Dourish 2013) to dedicated grief forums (Hastings, Musambira and Hoover 2007) and the discussion on parasocial grieving as mentioned previously. There is no doubt that online environments afford new possibilities for managing grief (Kasket 2019), and my previous research with England-based Facebook users found that the technological shield offered by social media helps people grieve online in ways they would not face-to-face, masking our vulnerability (Lapper 2017). Online memorials allow the bereaved to continue their interactions with the dead (Refslund Christensen and Gotved 2015), leading to what has been coined continuing bonds (Klass, Silverman and Nickman 1996).…”

Section: Scholarshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The internet is changing the way we interact with death and grief (Sofka 1997;Walter, Hourizi, Moncur and Pitsillides 2011;Lapper 2017). Clumsily, unexpectedly, and often paradoxically ubiquitous to the loss of a physical presence, encounters with a digital death are proliferating.…”

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confidence: 99%

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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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Section: Public Vs Privatementioning

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“…Social Media sites used by the people for happiness whenever they are in the public for that they made private conversation throughout Facebook and WhatsApp [9]. There are no restrictions were imposed on social media activity all the people are using social sites i.e., students, teachers, family members irrespective of their gender and community and religion [10]. The pluralistic public spheres that emerged within the arena of social media [11].…”

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Identification of Influencing Factors: Does the Social Media Sites Affect the Education of College Students?

Prabu*,

Anthonisamy

2020

IJRTE

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Probably we may come across the Social Media Sites (SMS) such as Facebook, WhatApp, Twitter and YouTube is a powerful media among the general public. The recent days without social media noting do to so for that reason every individual could be an account holder of social media. With the impact of social media, we could make significant changes among the public or government. The objective of the study is to find out the most influenced factor in Social Media Sites (SMS) among college students. Seven factors are used for the study such as Privacy_F1, Friendship_F2, Illegal Problems_F3, Advertise _F4, Risk Identify _F5, Easiest Share_F6, Post_ F7. Privacy F1 is the most influenced factor among the college students

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Earthquake aftersongs: music videos and the imagining of an online Nepali public

Hütt

2021

Popular Communication

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The major earthquake that struck central Nepal in April 2015 inspired a flurry of literary and cultural production, including the creation and online publication of over 50 earthquake-related music videos. Although they share a common thematic focus, these videos' representations of the earthquake aftermath and the Nepali people's response to the disaster diverge from one another in some important respects. Through a detailed analysis of the lyrical, musical and visual content of a selection of five of these videos, and drawing upon recent research on digital cultures, the article asks to what extent these divergences reflect an attempt by online content creators to address Nepali publics (whether domestic, diasporic, urban, rural or gendered) that they imagine and construct in different ways.

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Identification of Influencing Factors: Does the Social Media Sites Affect the Education of College Students?

Earthquake aftersongs: music videos and the imagining of an online Nepali public

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