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dc.contributor.authorGibson, Margaret
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-04T23:12:22Z
dc.date.available2018-11-04T23:12:22Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.issn1440-7833
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1440783315573613
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/153331
dc.description.abstractThrough a qualitative study of YouTube bereavement vlogs and posts by young people about parental death, this article examines the rise and significance of intimate mourning between strangers. An unexpected finding of this research has been the speed with which young people create vlogs or post messages of their bereavement; very often within hours of a death. The question of time in relation to bereavement grief is thus a feature of this article's analysis. The article argues that YouTube, like other social media, exposes and contests the disenfranchising of grief in offline social settings and relationships while, at the same time, enfranchising disaffected and excluded bereavement discourse via media sociality. It also argues, conversely, that YouTube, like other social media, is now a primary social space (not secondary or supplementary); it provides the where and how and who to connect with regarding personal grief and bereavement.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSage Publications
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto15
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Sociology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSociology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSocial change
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCultural studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4408
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4410
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode441004
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4702
dc.titleYouTube and bereavement vlogging: Emotional exchange between strangers
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorGibson, Margaret


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