Grief and everyday life: Bereaved parents' negotiations of presence across media
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Grief and everyday life : Bereaved parents' negotiations of presence across media. / Christensen, Dorthe Refslund; Sandvik, Kjetil.
The Media and the Mundane: Communication Across Media in Everyday Life. ed. / Kjetil Sandvik; Anne Mette Thorhauge; Bjarki Valtysson. 1. ed. Göteborg : Nordicom, 2016. p. 105-11.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Grief and everyday life
T2 - Bereaved parents' negotiations of presence across media
AU - Christensen, Dorthe Refslund
AU - Sandvik, Kjetil
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This chapter demonstrates how everyday practices among parents who suffer the loss of a child include the use of both analogue and digital means, both established media and materialities occasionally functioning as media in order to create meaning-making relations to the dead child, the bereaved as well as to the surrounding world. Based on an in-depth interview with a mother to a dead child combined with 8 years of observation studies and qualitative content analyses of both children’s graves and online memory profiles, this chapter explains how these are articulated through everyday media use. The chapter focuses on the cross media connection between offline and online activities anddemonstrates how the loss of a child initiates processes which are not about letting go and moving on but rather keeping hold while moving on articulated through communicational practices of keeping a sense of presence to the physically absent child.
AB - This chapter demonstrates how everyday practices among parents who suffer the loss of a child include the use of both analogue and digital means, both established media and materialities occasionally functioning as media in order to create meaning-making relations to the dead child, the bereaved as well as to the surrounding world. Based on an in-depth interview with a mother to a dead child combined with 8 years of observation studies and qualitative content analyses of both children’s graves and online memory profiles, this chapter explains how these are articulated through everyday media use. The chapter focuses on the cross media connection between offline and online activities anddemonstrates how the loss of a child initiates processes which are not about letting go and moving on but rather keeping hold while moving on articulated through communicational practices of keeping a sense of presence to the physically absent child.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - presence
KW - griefwork
KW - continuing bonds
KW - materiality/materialities
KW - occasional media
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-91-87957-38-3
SP - 105
EP - 111
BT - The Media and the Mundane
A2 - Sandvik, Kjetil
A2 - Thorhauge, Anne Mette
A2 - Valtysson, Bjarki
PB - Nordicom
CY - Göteborg
ER -
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