Digital Bereavement
- 1. Digital Bereavement Articulating the Unheard Utterances... uncommonground4500.blogspot.com Spring 2010
- 2. Grief Universal emotion Traditionally: Formal public gatherings Backstage emotion Recently: Digital bereavement Frontstage utterances uncommonground4500.blogspot.com Spring 2010
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- 4. The Big Question How does the use of Facebook profiles change depending upon the living-state of the profile holder? uncommonground4500.blogspot.com Spring 2010
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- 6. Profile Demographics Gender 11 males 1 female Circumstances 11 sudden deaths 1 chronic illness (treated as a special case) Age 17 to 32 years uncommonground4500.blogspot.com Spring 2010
- 7. Process Sampling method 1 year of pre-death wall posts All post-death wall posts LIWC, SPSS, Wmatrix Prominent punctuation, words, & parts of speech Word categories uncommonground4500.blogspot.com Spring 2010
- 8. Relevant Theories Continuing Bond People maintain a changed but continued relationship with the deceased Uses and Gratifications People actively choose to use certain media to gratify specific needs uncommonground4500.blogspot.com Spring 2010
- 9. Predictions (for posts after death) Complexity/Formality Verb Tense More - words per sentence, More - past words per post, long words (>6 Less - future letters), periods, commas, exclusives Pronoun Usage Intimacy More - personal pronouns (I, you, we) More - family, friend, affect Other Emotion More - religion, death, More - positive space, time, relativity, motion uncommonground4500.blogspot.com Spring 2010
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- 11. LIWC Results uncommonground4500.blogspot.com Spring 2010
- 12. LIWC Results uncommonground4500.blogspot.com Spring 2010
- 13. Wmatrix Results Top Results Interesting Results Pre-Death Post-Death Pre-Death Post-Death <name> miss lol miss lol you haha you haha love yeah love is always hey always if were hows peace 's and dude never get will should smile well peace yea all yeah much actually beautiful ithaca rip pic memories going missed yo heart soon rest kinda believe uncommonground4500.blogspot.com Spring 2010
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- 16. Questions? uncommonground4500.blogspot.com Spring 2010
- 17. Contact Information BLOG http://uncommonground4500.blogspot.com EMAIL uncommonground4500@gmail.com uncommonground4500.blogspot.com Spring 2010
- 18. References Hume, J., & Bressers, B. (2009). Obituaries online: New connections with the living -- and the dead. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 60(3), 255-271. http://baywood.metapress.com/app/home/contribution.asp? referrer=parent&backto=issue,4,6;journal,1,238;linkingpublicationresults, 1:300329,1 Lombard, M., & Selverian, M. E. M. (2008). Telepresence after death. Presence: Teleoper. Virtual Environ., 17(3), 310-325. http://astro.temple.edu/~lombard/ teaching/m9505materials/P2006_Lombard3.doc M. Massimi paper summary/abstract of his thesis: http:// research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/connect/CSCW_10/docs/ p521.pdf Bruflat, R. Gone, but not forgotten: Long-term communciation strategies of bereaved families. Conference Papers -- National Communciation. http:// www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/9/1/2/1/ p191217_index.html uncommonground4500.blogspot.com Spring 2010
Editor's Notes
- #3 universal emotion caused by major loss, handled in different ways Traditionally Funerals, memorial services, etc Diaries Recently More segmented mobile society Need: digital online space to bring people together across space & time, & for support FB: memorialization feature
- #5 - looking at the nature of posting pre- and post-death postings - hoping to be able to understand the motivation of FB wall posting - hoping that the analysis of our results will give us clues as to why people continue posting on deceased users&#x2019; profiles
- #7 sudden deaths (self-inflicted vs accidental)
- #8 Cleaning (comments etc) We did not include the chronic illness special case in our analysis, BUT we will talk about interesting findings in our results
- #12 LIWC provides a relatively simple and straightforward picture of how individuals are thinking as they write about deeply personal events. Continuing Bond: ppl maintain a changed but continued relationship with the deceased Uses & Gratifications: choosing to write on deceased users&#x2019; FB walls gratifies specific needs of the grievers **Like cont bond theory predicts, there seems to be a &#x201C;continued&#x201D; relationship after death, but a changed one because there is more complexity and intimacy Formality - more post (reverence?) More periods & commas Less exclamation points Less swears * Talk about the different/interesting results for chronic illness
- #14 Talk about what this means when we reference the theories&#x2026;