Digital mourning: Revisiting COVID-era #funeral discourse on Twitter.
AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic substantially disrupted funeral practices across the world, as public health restrictions limited gatherings and altered how funerals and mourning practices could take place. This study serves as a retrospective account of funeral-related discourse on Twitter, now X, du...
| Publicado en: | Death Studies pp. 1 - 19 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Aug2026
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=196189551&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 196189551 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 07481187 DEA jtl: Death Studies issn: 07481187 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Aug2026 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 196189551 10.1080/07481187.2026.2716625 196189551 ppf: 1 ppct: 18 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Digital mourning: Revisiting COVID-era #funeral discourse on Twitter. aug: au: Makita, Meiko Caswell, Glenys Mas-Bleda, Amalia affil: School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health, University of Dundee sug: ab: AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic substantially disrupted funeral practices across the world, as public health restrictions limited gatherings and altered how funerals and mourning practices could take place. This study serves as a retrospective account of funeral-related discourse on Twitter, now X, during the first year of the pandemic. We conducted a mixed-methods content analysis of a random sample of 900 English-language posts containing the hashtag #funeral, drawn from a larger corpus of COVID-19-related tweets posted between February 2020 and January 2021. The analysis examined public expressions of grief, ritual disruption, adaptation, the role of funeral service professionals and related concerns during a period of widespread crisis. At the interpretive level, four overlapping discourses were identified across the thematic findings: disrupted rituals and mourning at a distance; visibility, unequal recognition and politicized mourning; funeral economies and unequal mourning; and professional care and ritual continuity under restriction. Rather than signaling a complete transformation of mourning, the findings show how established practices were publicly reconfigured through Twitter, altering how funeral-related experiences were made visible, circulated and contested during the pandemic. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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