Social media constitute new social spaces where the topics of death, loss, and mourning are
increasingly encountered and negotiated. Users might either engage in mourning practices …

This book investigates how social media are reconfiguring dying, death, and mourning.
Taking a narrative approach, it argues that dying, death, and mourning are shared online as …

Emotion has long been a contested concept and subject to different, often conflicting,
definitions and approaches. Emotions have long been viewed in a reductionist way as solely …

The increasing role of online technology in mediating our accounts and experiences of
health and illness is now well recognised. Whereas earlier research has examined the …

Nowadays a large part of our everyday interactions takes place online. We continuously
send and receive notifications, e-mails, WhatsApp messages, tweets, and so on; we also …

This chapter presents small stories and positioning as epistemological and analytical tools
for studying identities in narrative practices. We start by discussing the shift from views of …

The present article addresses ethical issues and tensions that have arisen in the context of
language-focused research on web-based mourning. It renders explicit the process of …

This study focuses on users' practices involved in creating and maintaining Facebook
memorial Pages by adapting the theoretical perspective of the social capital approach. It …

This research is motivated by an interest in literacy particularly the script of films. This study
aims to analyze the types of deixis on Zootopia movie scripts. This study is designed by …

Social networking sites (SNSs) have changed the way we mourn. Reactions on SNSs to
celebrity death in particular have begun to attract the attention of both academic researchers …