Sharing grief and mourning on Instagram: Digital patterns of family memories

Thimm, Caja; Nehls, Patrick

doi:10.1515/commun-2017-0035

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“…The same parents share their “family snapshots” to prove that the “merry family ideal” and the “cute child ideal” have come true [ 37 ]. Although several papers investigated how parental factors are associated with user activity on Facebook [ 38 , 39 , 40 ] and Instagram [ 29 , 37 , 41 ], there is a lack of research focused on the interplay between Instagram activity and early attachment with parents. This gap is even more evident if the potential relationship between attachment and genetic factors is considered.…”

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Oxytocin Receptor Gene Polymorphisms and Early Parental Bonding Interact in Shaping Instagram Social Behavior

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Gabrieli

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Human beings engage in multiple social interactions daily, both in person and online. There are, however, individual differences in the frequency and quality of these interactions. This exploratory study focuses on online interactions and aims to model these differences by looking at potential environmental and genetic factors. The environmental factor is the childhood parental relationship, as reported by the participants in the dimensions of the Parental Bonding Instrument (N = 57, 41 females). At a genetic level, buccal mucosa cell samples were collected to assess participants’ genetic susceptibility, and OXTr regions rs2254298 (G/G homozygotes vs. A-carriers) and rs53576 (A/A homozygotes vs. G-carriers) were analyzed. To capture participants’ online activity, Instagram was probed. The number of people that the individual follows (“followings”), followers, and posts were used as a proxy for the quantity of interaction, and a Social Desirability Index (SDI) was computed as the ratio of followers to followings. An interaction between OXTr groups and parental bonding scores on the number of followings and posts was hypothesized. A gene-environment interaction for OXTr/rs2254298 on the number of Instagram posts was identified. In line with the hypothesis, participants with a genetic risk factor (A-carriers) and a history of low paternal care showed fewer Instagram posts than those without this risk factor (G/G genotype). Moreover, an interaction effect between maternal overprotection and OXTr/rs2254298 on the Instagram SDI was detected. These findings could represent an indirect pathway through which genes and parental behavior interact to shape social interactions on Instagram.

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Oxytocin Receptor Gene Polymorphisms and Early Parental Bonding Interact in Shaping Instagram Social Behavior

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“…Similarly, social media campaigns such as #Palestine2Ferguson connected the violent erasure of Palestinian lives in Gaza to the mistreatment of black people in Ferguson and the USA at large, emphasizing the mutual experiences of struggle and marginalization between African Americans and Palestinians or Arabs more generally (Roediger, 2016: 227). As these examples demonstrate, the “digital mini-publics” (Thimm and Nehls, 2017: 330) that social media platforms can make possible foster a new solidarity which propels empathy on grounds of a shared understanding of justice, “amplify[ing] messages beyond individuals and specific communities” (Kuo, 2016: 1).…”

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Born digital: The Black lives matter movement and memory after the digital turn

Liebermann

2020

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The dominance of traditional, institutionalized archives and memory platforms has been more and more challenged by the emergence of digital networks and “peer-to-peer” memory practices. This article argues that memory practices on social media platforms provide minority groups with affordances that established archives do not. Therefore, I will analyze tweets, Tumblr posts and a YouTube video in relation to the Black Lives Matter movement in the USA. Social media platforms can act as alternative archives to institutionalized archives and related systems of knowledge and power. While traditional archives focus on the representation of events, memory practices on social media platforms can also stress structural and slow forms of violence and their embeddedness in the everyday, point to historical continuities and make memories travel, thus establishing transnational and transcultural networks of mnemonic entanglements.

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“…It is reported that stories are extremely popular amongst the users, having a reported 500 million story users daily. Thimm and Nehls (2017) did a study on the sharing of grief and mourning on Instagram and found that this act of sharing in some cases developed into individual ritual behaviour. Their study focused on only posted photos and not stories.…”

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Engaging the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Perspectives from theology, philosophy and education

Ganzevoort¹

2020

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The reality of a radically changing world is beyond dispute. The notion of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is a heuristic key for the world of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, quantum computing, big data, the internet of things, and biotechnology. The discussion of emerging technologies and the Fourth Industrial Revolution highlights urgent questions about issues like intention, function, risk, and responsibility. This publication stimulates further reflection, ongoing conversation, and eventually the production of more textured thinking. The conversation with technology and with thinkers on technology, holds the promise of a certain fecundity, the possibility to see deeper into human evolution, but also, may be, into the future of humankind.

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Sharing grief and mourning on Instagram: Digital patterns of family memories

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Oxytocin Receptor Gene Polymorphisms and Early Parental Bonding Interact in Shaping Instagram Social Behavior

Oxytocin Receptor Gene Polymorphisms and Early Parental Bonding Interact in Shaping Instagram Social Behavior

Born digital: The Black lives matter movement and memory after the digital turn

Engaging the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Perspectives from theology, philosophy and education

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