Logging On and Letting Out: Using Online Social Networks to Grieve and to Mourn

Brian J. Carroll · Katie Landry

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Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning Media and Digital Communication Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration

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The purpose of this article is to explore how and why younger Internet users of social networking platforms such as MySpace and Facebook maintain connections with those who have died or been killed. This article, therefore, examines the blurring or blending of interpersonal communication and mass communication via the web as what once was very private communication—messages to the deceased—becomes very public. The findings suggest that these online social networks enable or empower individuals marginalized by more traditional forms of memorialization.

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