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 …

Research on the processes of mediatization aims to explore the mutual shaping of media
and social life and how new media technologies influence and infiltrate social practices and …

This paper examines two 'ends' of identity online–birth and death–through the analytical
lens of specific hashtags on the Instagram platform. These ends are examined in tandem in …

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 …

Many books on grief lay out a model to be followed, either for bereaved persons to live
through or for professionals to practice, and usually follow some familiar prescriptions for …

The hashtag# InHonorOfCarrie went viral on Twitter within hours of Carrie Fisher's death, as
people tweeted about their own mental health experiences to honor Fisher. This study …

Abstract Information behavior scholars are increasingly exploring information creation;
however, these studies focus primarily on individuals' processes. The Melbourne Korean …

When consumers become fans of celebrities, they can form intense emotional attachments
that resemble a kind of love. Although the love felt for celebrities is based on one-sided …

By analyzing online practices of mourning and memorialization on Facebook, this article
identifies underlying norms behind Danish Facebook users' attitudes towards networked …

Drawing on our 3-year digital ethnography of cross-partisan debates in the context of the
2020 US election and January 6 Capitol insurrection, this essay examines the affective and …