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A Narrative Approach to Social Media Mourning: Small Stories and Affective Positioning
Why Mourning?
Mourning and Social Media
Mediatization
Social Mediatization
Structure of the Book
Notes
References
Histories of Mourning
Introduction
Coming to Terms With Death
Mourning or Grief?
Approaches to Mourning and Grief
Cultural Performances of Mourning
Mourning, Narrative, and Affect
Mourning in (Late) Modernity
Is Death Taboo?
The Reportability and Tellability of Death
Mourning and Death in the Age of Sharing
The Interdisciplinary Study of Death Online
Key Tenets for the Study of Social Media Mourning
Notes
References
A Small Stories Approach to Social Media Mourning
Introduction
Narrative
The Pervasiveness of Narrative
Narrative Turns
The Turn to Narrative Experience
The Turn to Linguistic Structure
The Turn to Performance
The Turn to Practice
The Turn to Small Stories
Sharing Small Stories Online
Shared Stories and Participation
Sharing Illness, Death, and Mourning as Small Stories
Small Stories and Positioning
Affective Positioning
Positioning Cues
Deixis as Positioning Cues
Research Methods
The Case Studies
Remix Research Methods
Ethics in Digital Research
Conclusion
Notes
References
Small Stories of Illness and Dying on YouTube
Introduction
Vlogging on Cancer
Illness Narratives
The Case Study: Charlotte’s Journey
Coding the Vlog
Storying and Positioning
Identity Positioning
Selecting Content for Sharing
Emergent Narrativity
The ‘Big’ Story of Charlotte’s Journey
Small Storying the Illness Experience
“Bad News”: Breaking News of Illness
“Fed Up”: Envisualizing Illness
The Vlogger’s ‘Backstage’
Types of Participation
Shifts in Emplotment and Affective Positioning
Summary
Conclusion
Notes
References
Small Stories of Everyday Mourning on Facebook
Introduction
The Case Study
The Facebook Memorial Group
Selecting Memorial Content
Styling and Negotiating Posts on the Memorial Wall
Storying as Breaking News Stories of Remembrance
Shared Moments of Mourning
Selecting and Storying Moments of Grief Across Time
Habitual Stories of Mourning as Positioning
Time, Space, and Affective Positioning
Summary
Conclusion
Notes
References
Small Stories of Ecstatic Mourning on Twitter
Introduction
Twitter as a Hub of Sharing
Hashtags: Forms and Functions
The Case Study
Hashtag Storying
#CharlieHebdo as a Microstory Resource
Sharing #JeSuisCharlie as a Reference Small Story
#JeSuisCharlie as an Affective Positioning Resource
Ecstatic Sharing in Affective Landscapes
Summary
Conclusion
Notes
References
Visual Small Stories of Mourning on Twitter
Introduction
Sharing the Image of a Dead Child
Regarding the Death of the Other
The Case Study
Images as (Re)sources of Semiotic Meaning
Multimodal Frames in Print Headlines
Rescripting the Plot of Alan Kurdi’s Visual Story
Sharing Viewable Stories
The Hashtag #JeSuisAylan as an Affective Positioning Resource
After the Outpouring of Grief
Summary
Conclusion
Notes
References
Appendix 1
Small Stories of Mourning and Affective Positioning
Summary
A Narrative Approach to Mourning
Selecting Practices
Storying Practices
Positioning Practices
From Life-Writing of the Moment to Death-Writing of the Moment
Directions in the Study of Death Online
Directions in the Study of Affect Online
Directions in the Study of Narrative
Notes
References
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