This book takes a narrative approach to investigate how social media are reconfiguring dying, death, and mourning, presenting an empirical framework for analyzing these small stories as practices of sharing which become associated with specific modes of affective positioning.
Dr Korina Giaxoglou is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and English Language at the Open University, UK, where she leads the Health Discourse Research Group. Her research on mourning, narrative, affect and sharing has appeared in edited volumes, special issues, and peer-reviewed journals including Pragmatics, Applied Linguistics Review, Discourse, Context and Media and Social Media +Society.