2022/07/12 by Mayer, Annika Maria
#FOS: Media and communications
paper · doi:10.25598/jkm/2022-14.4
This article deals with the communication of mourning, remembrance and commemoration on the social media platform Facebook. Using the method of qualitative semi-structured interviews, it examines and explains how and in what way affected persons and relatives communicate on the mourning and memorial pages and what effects this communication has on the grieving process and the memory of the deceased. It becomes apparent that Facebook as a kind of 'virtual cemetery' is not a complete substitute for a physical place of mourning and analogue mourning communication, but that through communication with others, based on individual memories, new communal memories are created and memories remain more alive.