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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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