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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
www.digital-rights.net
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