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

ISBN-13: 9780367520663 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 240 str.

Korina Giaxoglou

Opis

This book takes a narrative approach to investigate how social media are reconfiguring dying, death, and mourning, presenting an empirical framework for analyzing these small stories as practices of sharing which become associated with specific modes of affective positioning. 

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.