Grief expression in a postmodern era - motivations for posting grief-related messages publicly on social networking sites

Social networking sites (SNSs) have become a persistent presence in our daily lives. While many researchers have been interested in the motivations behind why users adopt different SNSs and for what purposes they have done so, few have looked specifically into the expression of grief on SNSs. Throug...

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Main Author:	Toh, Jun Ting
Other Authors:	Sonny Ben Rosenthal
Format:	Final Year Project
Language:	English
Published:	2018
Subjects:	DRNTU::Humanities
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73709
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spelling	sg-ntu-dr.10356-737092019-12-10T13:41:45Z Grief expression in a postmodern era - motivations for posting grief-related messages publicly on social networking sites Toh, Jun Ting Sonny Ben Rosenthal Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information DRNTU::Humanities Social networking sites (SNSs) have become a persistent presence in our daily lives. While many researchers have been interested in the motivations behind why users adopt different SNSs and for what purposes they have done so, few have looked specifically into the expression of grief on SNSs. Through a uses and gratifications framework, this paper investigates the motivations for SNS users to post grief-related messages publicly. Analysing the results of a survey with sample size N = 428, it was found that the needs for news dissemination, preservation, relationship maintenance and social capital were significant motivations for posting, while social support was not. The results suggest that SNSs can function as outlets for grief expression when they are perceived to satisfy these needs. Keywords: social networking sites, Facebook, grief, uses and gratifictions, social media, social capital Bachelor of Communication Studies 2018-04-04T08:10:17Z 2018-04-04T08:10:17Z 2018 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73709 en Nanyang Technological University 25 p. application/pdf application/pdf
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description	Social networking sites (SNSs) have become a persistent presence in our daily lives. While many researchers have been interested in the motivations behind why users adopt different SNSs and for what purposes they have done so, few have looked specifically into the expression of grief on SNSs. Through a uses and gratifications framework, this paper investigates the motivations for SNS users to post grief-related messages publicly. Analysing the results of a survey with sample size N = 428, it was found that the needs for news dissemination, preservation, relationship maintenance and social capital were significant motivations for posting, while social support was not. The results suggest that SNSs can function as outlets for grief expression when they are perceived to satisfy these needs. Keywords: social networking sites, Facebook, grief, uses and gratifictions, social media, social capital
author2	Sonny Ben Rosenthal
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author	Toh, Jun Ting
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title	Grief expression in a postmodern era - motivations for posting grief-related messages publicly on social networking sites
title_short	Grief expression in a postmodern era - motivations for posting grief-related messages publicly on social networking sites
title_full	Grief expression in a postmodern era - motivations for posting grief-related messages publicly on social networking sites
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Grief expression in a postmodern era - motivations for posting grief-related messages publicly on social networking sites

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