We will never forget you [online] : An empirical investigation of post-mortem MySpace comments

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 123-132

  Brubaker, Jed R ^a   Hayes, Gillian R ^a  

^a Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

Author keywords

Bereavement; Cybermemorials; Death; Digital persistence; Myspace; Profile comments; Social network sites

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

BEREAVEMENT; CYBERMEMORIALS; DEATH; DIGITAL PERSISTENCE; MYSPACE; PROFILE COMMENTS; SOCIAL NETWORK SITES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 79955150759     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1958824.1958843     Document Type: Conference Paper

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