Social Media After Death
Qinyi Liu
Social media breaks the virtual and physical boundaries in today's digital society. It is a vector for people to share and express their feelings more publicly, including mourning and grief. Mourning on social media helps building an online relationship and support. Meanwhile, turning to social media for emotional support and coping with grief helps make death less isolating and also has prompted mourning activities and actions to move away from private toward public development. This thesis aims to explore social media as a tool to create a new mourning mode for audiences to express their grieves without hesitation.
“They are with me”
“They are with me” is telling a contrasting story about the difference in the amount of social support mourners may receive over time in the absence of social media mourning and in the presence of social media mourning.
Online Mourning Virtual Exhibition
“Online Mourning” provides various collections about mourning behavior on social media. Visitors can develop better understanding about social media mourning. Also, it affords interactive features for people to have multiple conversations at the same time. Except the existing collections, participants can add their collections into the exhibition.
Online Mourning Virtual Exhibition
Online Mourning Virtual Exhibition
If visitors want to express their grief while visiting the exhibition, “Online Mourning” also provides private rooms for mourners to build their own temporary mourning environment.Online Mourning Virtual Exhibition
“Online Mourning” is not only an exhibition, but also a community for people to share their own mourning content.