Logging On and Letting Out: Using Online Social Networks to Grieve and to Mourn

By Brian Carroll, K. Landry. 2010

181 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Philosophy

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Citations in the corpus

• Beyond the Grave: Facebook as a Site for the Expansion of Death and Mourning (2013, background): “…postmortem Wall posts, many participants used familiar funerary and death related similes— particularly with graveyards and tombstones—to describe their experiences and concerns: [T]here was part of me that thought it was a little odd, but I thought no different than putting flowers on a grave.”
• Continuing bonds in the age of social networking: Facebook as a modern-day medium (2012, background): “Carroll & Landry ( 2010 ) have produced some of the only research to date on the phenomenon of mourning on social networks, combining an ethnographic analysis of 200 Myspace memorial posts with a quantitative survey of 100 undergraduate users of Facebook.”