The language of illness and death on social media : an affective approach

• Main Authors: Stage, Carsten (Author), Hougaard, Tina Thode (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
• Series: Sharing death online
• Subjects: Social media.; Diseases > Social aspects.; Death > Social aspects.; Mourning customs.; Social Science > Media Studies.; Media studies.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781787694798; 9781787694811
• DOI: 10.1108/9781787694798
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 135 pages) ; cm.

This book investigates the language created and used on social media to express and respond to personal experiences of illness, dying and mourning. The authors begin by setting out the established and recent research on social and existential media, affect and language, before focusing on Facebook g...