How to experience grief online? A comparison of web memorials of people and animals

To understand online mourning possibilities, this work presents a bibliographic review that identified typical goals of people who face mourning. Then, it reports identified features and information in 20 online memorial systems for people and animals, obtained by inspecting the interface. It concl...

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Main Authors: Bruno Santana da Silva, Manoel Lucas de Souza Silva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: DigiMedia - Digital Media and Interaction Research Center 2021-07-01
Series:Journal of Digital Media & Interaction
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Online Access:https://proa.ua.pt/index.php/jdmi/article/view/23632
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spelling doaj-0c7b3d14856443229a13d9d33639e32b2021-07-30T17:31:03ZengDigiMedia - Digital Media and Interaction Research CenterJournal of Digital Media & Interaction2184-31202021-07-0141010.34624/jdmi.v4i10.23632How to experience grief online? A comparison of web memorials of people and animalsBruno Santana da Silva0Manoel Lucas de Souza Silva1Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do NorteUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte To understand online mourning possibilities, this work presents a bibliographic review that identified typical goals of people who face mourning. Then, it reports identified features and information in 20 online memorial systems for people and animals, obtained by inspecting the interface. It concludes by associating people's goals in coping with bereavement with online memorial features. https://proa.ua.pt/index.php/jdmi/article/view/23632lossdeceasedmourningfunctionalityinformationuser goal
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How to experience grief online? A comparison of web memorials of people and animals
Journal of Digital Media & Interaction
loss
deceased
mourning
functionality
information
user goal
author_facet Bruno Santana da Silva
Manoel Lucas de Souza Silva
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title How to experience grief online? A comparison of web memorials of people and animals
title_short How to experience grief online? A comparison of web memorials of people and animals
title_full How to experience grief online? A comparison of web memorials of people and animals
title_fullStr How to experience grief online? A comparison of web memorials of people and animals
title_full_unstemmed How to experience grief online? A comparison of web memorials of people and animals
title_sort how to experience grief online? a comparison of web memorials of people and animals
publisher DigiMedia - Digital Media and Interaction Research Center
series Journal of Digital Media & Interaction
issn 2184-3120
publishDate 2021-07-01
description To understand online mourning possibilities, this work presents a bibliographic review that identified typical goals of people who face mourning. Then, it reports identified features and information in 20 online memorial systems for people and animals, obtained by inspecting the interface. It concludes by associating people's goals in coping with bereavement with online memorial features.
topic loss
deceased
mourning
functionality
information
user goal
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