Hi Cagla, I did my phd dissertation in 2007 about the on-line communities and personal blogs about mourning and bereavement. I wrote also some papers in English..they are not strictly focused on suicide survivors communities but maybe they can be useful for you. A. Micalizzi (2010), Mourning Network: ethnography and new social practices in on-line communities, in Digithum, UOC University press, Barcelona. (it is available on-line for free) A. Micalizzi (2009), Personal blogs and mourning: the writing of Self on the Net as a support network in situations of help , Ratio Sociologica, vol 2. n.1, University Chieti-Pescara Press, p.36-50.(if you want I can send you) Recently I wrote a paper about on-line video memorials on Youtube...it is actually a proceeding A. Micalizzi (Forthcoming), Video-memorials: a case of emotional grassroots culture, International Conference AIS-PIC, Media industries and Grassroots Cultural Production in the Digital Era, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. If you want you can contact me at alessandra.micalizzi@gmail.com all the best Alessandra Alessandra Micalizzi Il giorno 29/dic/2012, alle ore 10:35, Cagla Taskin <ctasquin@yahoo.com> ha scritto:
Dear list members,
I am currently writing my Master's thesis on practices of grieving and bereavement online, with a focus on a suicide survivors forum case study. Any literature recommendations would be highly appreciated.
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