Beyond the Grave: Facebook as a Site for the Expansion of Death and Mourning

Information Society

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 152-163

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

^a Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

Author keywords

bereavement; death; dying; Facebook; social network sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877253835     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2013.777300     Document Type: Article

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