{"id":5886,"date":"2016-09-15T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T19:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=5886"},"modified":"2016-09-16T14:31:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T19:31:11","slug":"mourning-with-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2016\/09\/15\/mourning-with-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourning with Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Social media continues to be a\u00a0pioneer of new social trends and reshaping society through its ability to connect individuals\u00a0across cultures and geographies. One of the latest trends involves the process of mourning\u00a0through social media.<\/span><\/p>\n

University of Washington<\/a> recently covered\u00a0<\/span>Nina Cesare<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Jennifer Branstad<\/a>‘s new research, presented for the first time at this summer’s annual sociology meetings, that finds that<\/span>\u00a0people who use Twitter to mourn a death do so more\u00a0publicly than compared to other social media sites, like Facebook, where mourning is more private. They explain,<\/span><\/p>\n

“While posts about death on Facebook, for example, tend to be more personal and involve people who knew the deceased …\u00a0Twitter users may not know the dead person, tend to tweet both personal and general comments about the deceased, and sometimes tie the death to broader social issues \u2014 for example, mental illness or suicide.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The researchers describe this change as an opening up of the public conversation surrounding death and mourning\u00a0and an expansion of the “inner circle” that typically mourns the death of a loved one. Cesare explains,<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026I think the ability of Twitter to open the mourning community outside of the intimate sphere is a big contribution, and creating this space where people can come together and talk about death is something new.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Social media continues to be a\u00a0pioneer of new social trends and reshaping society through its ability to connect individuals\u00a0across cultures and geographies. One of the latest trends involves the process of mourning\u00a0through social media. University of Washington recently covered\u00a0Nina Cesare and Jennifer Branstad‘s new research, presented for the first time at this summer’s annual sociology […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[39112,233,942,26527,184],"class_list":["post-5886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-culture","tag-death","tag-facebook","tag-mourning","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5886"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5893,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886\/revisions\/5893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}