Tweeting Social Support Messages After a Non-Celebrity's Death: The Case of the Philippines' #Fallen44

• Main Authors: Bautista, John Robert, Lin, Trisha Tsui-Chuan
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81843; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39712
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Nowadays, social network sites (SNS) have provided an accessible means to convey social support to grievers who mourn for the dead. To explore how Twitter is used to convey social support after a non-celebrity’s death, this study conducted a content analysis of 1,557 Twitter posts bearing the hashta...