[Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 101, Issue 25

[annika coughlin]

Hi CT

I don't have any literature recommendations, but I think it is an interesting topic. I have always wondered if any one has researched how online community members, who only know each other online, deal with the death of an online community member who they never met in the flesh. My father was an online poet from the UK, but quite popular in Australia and when we had to tell people of his death, it was quite interesting contacting the various message boards he was a member of. Also - he used to play the Wii and have a Wii character as well as a character in Animal Crossing. When we play the Wii now, his character is still on there and it is funny when he appears in games as his Wii character. In Animal Crossing, we built a memorial in the game with flowers etc near his house.

It would be interesting if someone has researched anything to do with this sort of thing.

Annika




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>Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:35:20 +0200
>From: Cagla Taskin <ctasquin at yahoo.com>
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>Subject: [Air-L] Literature on online grieving and bereavement
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>Dear list members,
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>I am currently writing my Master's thesis on practices of grieving and bereavement online, with a focus on a suicide survivors forum case study. Any literature recommendations would be highly appreciated.
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>Thank you in advance,
>CT
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