1st Edition

A Narrative Approach to Social Media Mourning Small Stories and Affective Positioning

By Korina Giaxoglou Copyright 2020
240 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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 small stories of the moment , which are organized around transgressive moments and events with motivational, participatory, or connective scope. Through the different case studies discussed, this book presents an... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Histories of Mourning  3. A Small Stories Approach to Social Media Mourning  4. Small Stories of Illness and Dying on YouTube  5. Small Stories of Everyday Mourning on Facebook  6. Small Stories of Ecstatic Mourning on Twitter  7. Visual Small Stories of Mourning on Twitter  8. Small Stories of Mourning and Affective Positioning

Biography

Dr Korina Giaxoglou is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and English Language at the Open University, UK, where she leads the Health Discourse Research Group. Her research on mourning, narrative, affect and sharing has appeared in edited volumes, special issues, and peer-reviewed journals including Pragmatics, Applied Linguistics Review, Discourse, Context and Media and Social Media +Society.