I said your name in an empty room: Grieving and continuing bonds on Facebook

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 997-1000

  Getty, Emily ^a   Cobb, Jessica ^a   Gabeler, Meryl ^a   Nelson, Christine ^a   Weng, Ellis ^a   Hancock, Jeffrey T ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Death; Facebook; Grief; Language; Memorialized

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

DEATH; EMPTY ROOMS; FACEBOOK; GRIEF; LANGUAGE; MEMORIALIZED; SHARING MEMORY; SOCIAL NETWORKING TECHNOLOGIES; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 79958174357     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979091     Document Type: Conference Paper

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