Bereaved parents' online grief Communities: De-tabooing practices or ralationsbuiling grief-ghettos?

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  • Dorthe Refslund Christensen
  • Ylva Hård af Segerstad
  • Dick Kasperowski
  • Kjetil Sandvik
This article presents results from case studies of online grief communities for bereaved parents in Denmark and Sweden (Christensen & Sandvik 2013, 2015a; Hård af Segerstad & Kasperowski, 2015), analyzing how development of practices and norms for grieving and mourning online are related to the conditions for participation in the online forums, and to dominant ideas of grief in society as such. Rooted in contemporary research on grief and mourning, we discuss practices of tabooization, de-tabooization or even re-tabooization in the different online forums and how norms and traditions are performed, challenged and negotiated in the various formats.
Bidragets oversatte titelOnline sorgfællesskaber for forældre, der har mistet : Aftabuiserende praksisser eller relationsskabende sorg-ghettoer?
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftJournal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media
Vol/bind61
Udgave nummer1
Sider (fra-til)58-72
Antal sider15
ISSN0883-8151
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2017

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