Covid-19, I Hate You!”
Framing Death and Dying in Covid-19 Online Memorials
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13627741 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Faith Myers (0000-0002-5073-5465, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA), Sarah Donley (0000-0002-5162-2630, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 440-458 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00302228221107978 |
| PMID | 35694776 |
| OpenAlex | W4281977402 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 23 |
The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the way Americans deal with death and dying. Social distancing restrictions prevented or delayed end of life services for families who lost loved ones to COVID-19. Alternatively, some took to the internet to express their grief through online memorialization. Using content analysis, this study analyzes 200 randomly selected online memorials from the COVID Memorial website, a website created to share the stories of those lost to COVID-19 on social media. Our findings offer insight into memorial author demographics, how memorial authors framed and understood death due to COVID-19, and the COVID-19 pandemic through online memorialization. Two major themes emerged during data analysis, "references to COVID-19 death" and "COVID-specific directives to readers." The former, details how memorial authors framed and understood the death of a loved one to COVID-19. The latter details "advice" or "directives" authors gave to readers about social distancing guidelines and other guidelines meant to prevent the spread of COVID-19
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Distancing · Framing (construction · Grief · Internet privacy · Media studies · Memorialization · Pandemic · Political science · Psychiatry · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 · Social distance · Social media · Sociology · Empathy and Medical Education · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · History · Law · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Virology
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |