Grieving With Facebook

Grieving with FacebookYlva Hård af Segerstad & Mathias Klang (@klang67)

Early days

Superficial social media

Spreads misery, wasteful, harmful, anti-social…

If we don't teach our children to be alone, they're going to be more lonely.

S. Turkle

The oneness of Facebook

Distancing of death

Informality & failure of language

Looking at Grief to understand

Mourning

New social norms

Pilot study

Over 90%: Women

Over 90%: > 3 months bereavement

Over 50%: Check the page several times per day

Over 50% update their status less than once a month

Interaction

Over 85% feel that group provides something that “real world” does not

The road ahead

Interviews, texts, other

groups & other

networks

Norms, Rules & taboos

Research agenda

Crucial infrastructures

THANKS!

Mathias Klang klang@ituniv.se or @klang67

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