Mourning Practices on the Internet
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Religious Communication, Interaction and Transformation in a Culture of Digitality: Insights into the Zurich University Research Priority Program "Digital Religion(s)?. ed. / Thomas Schlag; Katharina Yadav. Walter de Gruyter, 2025. p. 7-26.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Mourning Practices on the Internet
AU - Dürscheid, Christa
AU - Frick, Karina
AU - Siever, Christina Margrit
AU - Wick, Sandro
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2025 the author(s), published by De Gruyter.
PY - 2025/12/14
Y1 - 2025/12/14
N2 - The article presents the results of our URPP subproject "Mourning Practices on the Internet", in which four linguists collaborated. Following our disciplinary background, the aim of the project was to explore how feelings of grief after a tragic event are expressed on the internet, what linguistic and visual means of expression are used, and how this form of online mourning is reported in the media (i.e. in newspapers). A particular focus was placed on the question of religious references found in the data we examined. Such references are expected in the context of death and mourning; the project investigated how these references are explicitly established. While other studies are predominantly in English, our research centers on German-language data. The article presents selected results from our qualitative and quantitative analyses and highlights how closely offline and online mourning practices are intertwined in our digitally permeated world.
AB - The article presents the results of our URPP subproject "Mourning Practices on the Internet", in which four linguists collaborated. Following our disciplinary background, the aim of the project was to explore how feelings of grief after a tragic event are expressed on the internet, what linguistic and visual means of expression are used, and how this form of online mourning is reported in the media (i.e. in newspapers). A particular focus was placed on the question of religious references found in the data we examined. Such references are expected in the context of death and mourning; the project investigated how these references are explicitly established. While other studies are predominantly in English, our research centers on German-language data. The article presents selected results from our qualitative and quantitative analyses and highlights how closely offline and online mourning practices are intertwined in our digitally permeated world.
KW - Literature studies
KW - Language Studies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105023458267&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1515/9783111721729-002
DO - 10.1515/9783111721729-002
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:105023458267
SN - 9783111721125
SP - 7
EP - 26
BT - Religious Communication, Interaction and Transformation in a Culture of Digitality
A2 - Schlag, Thomas
A2 - Yadav, Katharina
PB - Walter de Gruyter
ER -