Literature on online grieving and bereavement
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. Thank you in advance, CT
Dear CT, Thanks for writing. This is an important issue and I'm glad more people are writing about it. Whatever approach you take, you should read Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and Michael Leming. There is a recent paper by Alice Marwick in the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, about grieving online that will also be of interest to you. My recently completed dissertation, Journalism in the Age of Social Media: The Case of the "In Memorial: Virginia Tech" Facebook Group, which is available in the Digital Dissertations database, might be of some help as well. From a case study perspective, I recommend the methodological work of Robert Yin and Robert Stake. I hope this helps, Peter On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 3:35 AM, Cagla Taskin <ctasquin@yahoo.com> wrote:
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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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My dissertation was on coping and adjustment with a good reference list on grieving. http://shanetilton.net/2012/11/full-diss/tilton-shane-11-21-2012/ Sent from my iPhone On Dec 29, 2012, at 7:48 AM, "Peter Gloviczki" <glovi002@umn.edu> wrote:
Dear CT,
Thanks for writing. This is an important issue and I'm glad more people are writing about it. Whatever approach you take, you should read Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and Michael Leming. There is a recent paper by Alice Marwick in the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, about grieving online that will also be of interest to you. My recently completed dissertation, Journalism in the Age of Social Media: The Case of the "In Memorial: Virginia Tech" Facebook Group, which is available in the Digital Dissertations database, might be of some help as well. From a case study perspective, I recommend the methodological work of Robert Yin and Robert Stake. I hope this helps,
Peter
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 3:35 AM, Cagla Taskin <ctasquin@yahoo.com> wrote:
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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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Dear CT, Another useful reference is the IIiX 2012 paper by Ruthven et al. on how people use search engines in times of grief and bereavement: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2362747 Best, Toine --- Royal School of Library & Information Science Birketinget 6 | 2300 Copenhagen S | Denmark http://itlab.dbit.dk/~toine/ Phone: +45 31 44 42 84 | Room: C4.02 On Dec 29, 2012, at 6:54 PM, Tilton, Shane wrote:
My dissertation was on coping and adjustment with a good reference list on grieving.
http://shanetilton.net/2012/11/full-diss/tilton-shane-11-21-2012/
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 29, 2012, at 7:48 AM, "Peter Gloviczki" <glovi002@umn.edu> wrote:
Dear CT,
Thanks for writing. This is an important issue and I'm glad more people are writing about it. Whatever approach you take, you should read Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and Michael Leming. There is a recent paper by Alice Marwick in the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, about grieving online that will also be of interest to you. My recently completed dissertation, Journalism in the Age of Social Media: The Case of the "In Memorial: Virginia Tech" Facebook Group, which is available in the Digital Dissertations database, might be of some help as well. From a case study perspective, I recommend the methodological work of Robert Yin and Robert Stake. I hope this helps,
Peter
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CT, I had a friend in graduate school who did her dissertation about online memorials and I'd recommend a look at her work. Here's the info: Joyce R. Walker: Standing at the End of a Road: Death and the Construction of Cyborg Relationships It's available in the Proquest Dissertation Database. Good luck! Kathie On Dec 29, 2012, at 11:54 AM, Tilton, Shane wrote:
My dissertation was on coping and adjustment with a good reference list on grieving.
http://shanetilton.net/2012/11/full-diss/tilton-shane-11-21-2012/
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 29, 2012, at 7:48 AM, "Peter Gloviczki" <glovi002@umn.edu> wrote:
Dear CT,
Thanks for writing. This is an important issue and I'm glad more people are writing about it. Whatever approach you take, you should read Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and Michael Leming. There is a recent paper by Alice Marwick in the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, about grieving online that will also be of interest to you. My recently completed dissertation, Journalism in the Age of Social Media: The Case of the "In Memorial: Virginia Tech" Facebook Group, which is available in the Digital Dissertations database, might be of some help as well. From a case study perspective, I recommend the methodological work of Robert Yin and Robert Stake. I hope this helps,
Peter
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 3:35 AM, Cagla Taskin <ctasquin@yahoo.com> wrote:
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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You might be interested in work on online memorials, such as.... Brubaker, J. R., Kivran-Swaine, F., & Hayes, G. R. (2012). Grief-stricken in a crowd: The language of bereavement and distress in social media. Presented at the International Conference on the Web and Social Media (ICWSM-12). Dublin, Ireland. Gibbs, M., Mori, J., Arnold, M., & Kohn, T. (2012). Tombstones, uncanny monuments and epic quests: Memorials in World of Warcraft. Game Studies, 12(1). Retrieved from http://gamestudies.org/1201/articles/gibbs_martin Marwick, A., & Ellison, N. B. (2012). “There isn’t wifi in heaven!” Negotiating visibility on Facebook memorial pages. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 56(3), 378–400. On Dec 29, 2012, at 4:35 AM, Cagla Taskin wrote:
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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An early, seminal piece here is Gary Gumpert's Talking Tombstones (if not yet mentioned). Sorry, on the fly, don't have formal citation on hand. Great New Year All -r ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Sent from this bio-technical appendage now deemed essential to participating in a full and legitimate existence. On Dec 29, 2012, at 11:47 AM, "Nathaniel Poor" <natpoor@gmail.com> wrote:
You might be interested in work on online memorials, such as....
Brubaker, J. R., Kivran-Swaine, F., & Hayes, G. R. (2012). Grief- stricken in a crowd: The language of bereavement and distress in social media. Presented at the International Conference on the Web and Social Media (ICWSM-12). Dublin, Ireland.
Gibbs, M., Mori, J., Arnold, M., & Kohn, T. (2012). Tombstones, uncanny monuments and epic quests: Memorials in World of Warcraft. Game Studies, 12(1). Retrieved from http://gamestudies.org/1201/articles/gibbs_martin
Marwick, A., & Ellison, N. B. (2012). “There isn’t wifi in heaven!” Negotiating visibility on Facebook memorial pages. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 56(3), 378–400.
On Dec 29, 2012, at 4:35 AM, Cagla Taskin wrote:
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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Someone (perhaps Barry Wellman?) had some related pieces after the OK bombing.
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l- bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of MacDougall, Robert Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 4:21 PM To: Nathaniel Poor Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Literature on online grieving and bereavement
An early, seminal piece here is Gary Gumpert's Talking Tombstones (if not yet mentioned).
Sorry, on the fly, don't have formal citation on hand.
Great New Year All
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On Dec 29, 2012, at 11:47 AM, "Nathaniel Poor" <natpoor@gmail.com> wrote:
You might be interested in work on online memorials, such as....
Brubaker, J. R., Kivran-Swaine, F., & Hayes, G. R. (2012). Grief- stricken in a crowd: The language of bereavement and distress in social media. Presented at the International Conference on the Web and Social Media (ICWSM-12). Dublin, Ireland.
Gibbs, M., Mori, J., Arnold, M., & Kohn, T. (2012). Tombstones, uncanny monuments and epic quests: Memorials in World of Warcraft. Game Studies, 12(1). Retrieved from http://gamestudies.org/1201/articles/gibbs_martin
Marwick, A., & Ellison, N. B. (2012). “There isn’t wifi in heaven!” Negotiating visibility on Facebook memorial pages. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 56(3), 378–400.
On Dec 29, 2012, at 4:35 AM, Cagla Taskin wrote:
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.
Thank you in advance, CT _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http:// aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Hello, Here is a link to the earlier referenced Marwick and Ellison open access JOBEM article "There Isn't Wifi in Heaven!" Negotiating Visibility in Facebook Memorial Pages. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08838151.2012.705197 Cheers, Stacy Stacy Blasiola University of Illinois at Chicago IGERT Fellow - Electronic Security & Privacy JOBEM - Editorial Associate On Dec 29, 2012 3:35 AM, "Cagla Taskin" <ctasquin@yahoo.com> wrote:
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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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Dear CT, My PhD is in similar territory. I highly recommend these two great overviews drawing on current literature:- Walter, T., Hourizi, R., Moncur, W. and Pitsillides, S., 2011. Does the internet change how we die and mourn? Overview and analysis. Omega: Journal of Death & Dying, 64 (4), pp. 275-302. Massimi, M., Odom, W., Banks, R., & Kirk, D. (2011). Matters of life and death: Locating the end of life in lifespan-oriented HCI research. Proc. CHI 2011, 987-996 Best, Nina
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,
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Its really great to see all this recent work on morning and death online. For what its worth, as its not about suicide, i wrote about mourning on the mailing list Cybermind around two deaths in "Culture, Disorder, and Death in an Online World" in Honglei Li (ed) 2012. Virtual Community Participation and Motivation: Cross-Disciplinary Theories. IGI Global: pages 330-346. if your university subscribes to IGI, then you can probably get an electronic version. There is further discussion of cybermind and death in my "living on cybermind" book, and in Argyle, "Life after death" in , R.Shields (ed.), Cultures of the internet: Virtual spaces, real histories, living bodies. London, UK: Sage. 1996 Mia Lipner had a sound peice on the same death in Women and Performance 17, from the perspective of the list Futureculture see http://terrisenft.net/wp17/index.html but i have no idea where you would get that now. One of the articles i liked best during my reading for the article above was Saarinen, L. (2002). "Imagined community and death". Digital Creativity, 13(1), 53–61. jon UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.
CT - Fantastic inquiry, and what a great list compiled so far. I have found the below intriguing: Bryson, J. J. (2012). Internet memory and life after death. Bereavement Care, 31(2), 70-72. doi:10.1080/02682621.2012.710494 Haverinen, A. (2010). Digitized Mourning. Suomen Antropologi: Journal Of The Finnish Anthropological Society, 35(3), 87-89. Finlay, C. J., & Krueger, G. (2011). A Space for Mothers: Grief as Identity Construction on Memorial Websites Created by SIDS Parents. Omega: Journal Of Death & Dying, 63(1), 21-44. doi:10.2190/OM.63.1.b Swartwood, R. M., Veach, P., Kuhne, J., Hyun Kyung, L., & Kangting, J. (2011). Surviving Grief: An Analysis of the Exchange of Hope in Online Grief Communities. Omega: Journal Of Death & Dying, 63(2), 161-181. doi:10.2190/OM.63.2.d Additionally, the Pew Internet & American Life Project released a presentation about Online Grief Support Groups in November 2001: www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2001/Online-Grief-Support-Groups.aspx Best, Sharon Greenfield @SharonG On Dec 29, 2012, at 1:35 AM, Cagla Taskin wrote:
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.
Thank you in advance, CT
CT- Nina Jakoby and Simone Reiser have an excellent chapter on "Grief 2.0: Exploring Virtual Cemeteries" in a forthcoming edited collection *Internet and Emotions* (edited by my colleague Tova Benski and myself). Perhaps you can contact them to get an early glimpse. Best, Eran ** On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 5:13 AM, live <human.factor.one@gmail.com> wrote:
CT - Fantastic inquiry, and what a great list compiled so far. I have found the below intriguing:
Bryson, J. J. (2012). Internet memory and life after death. Bereavement Care, 31(2), 70-72. doi:10.1080/02682621.2012.710494
Haverinen, A. (2010). Digitized Mourning. Suomen Antropologi: Journal Of The Finnish Anthropological Society, 35(3), 87-89.
Finlay, C. J., & Krueger, G. (2011). A Space for Mothers: Grief as Identity Construction on Memorial Websites Created by SIDS Parents. Omega: Journal Of Death & Dying, 63(1), 21-44. doi:10.2190/OM.63.1.b
Swartwood, R. M., Veach, P., Kuhne, J., Hyun Kyung, L., & Kangting, J. (2011). Surviving Grief: An Analysis of the Exchange of Hope in Online Grief Communities. Omega: Journal Of Death & Dying, 63(2), 161-181. doi:10.2190/OM.63.2.d
Additionally, the Pew Internet & American Life Project released a presentation about Online Grief Support Groups in November 2001: www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2001/Online-Grief-Support-Groups.aspx
Best, Sharon Greenfield @SharonG
On Dec 29, 2012, at 1:35 AM, Cagla Taskin wrote:
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.
Thank you in advance, CT
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Nathaniel Poor -
Nina Ellis Gray -
Peter Gloviczki -
Stacy Blasiola -
Tilton, Shane -
Toine Bogers