Can digital spaces, through transcending time and distance, provide fertile spaces for communal grief? My primary explorations focused both on the material implications of life and death online, as well as the change from institutional grieving to “vernacular” (Arnold et. al, 2017 pp. 24) modes of mourning as engendered by the rise of social media.
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