Instagram’s Affordances and the Visual Construction of Solidarity after a Mass Shooting
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6192136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessica S Pearce (0000-0002-8234-7205, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 209-223 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Illness Crisis & Loss (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1054-1373 • E-ISSN: 1552-6968 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1054137320906405 |
| OpenAlex | W3023617588 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 36 |
Solidarity is a common response after a mass shooting. Social media and social media affordances, such as hashtags, are valuable technological tools after such events. How does social media facilitate the response to mass shootings? In particular, how do platform affordances shape solidarity practices? To this end, I analyzed Instagram images tagged #LafayetteStrong 2 years after a mass shooting in Lafayette, Louisiana. I observed several solidarity-inspired themes including material objects, community events and landmarks, references to support and reflection, and photographs as advertisements. I argue that Instagram affords a mediated form of solidarity, visually documenting ritualized community practices, while also facilitating individualized and subjective interpretations of solidarity. Users exploited Instagram’s affordances for advertisement purposes, capitalizing on a community-centered hashtag. These findings contribute to the sociological literature on mass shootings, the visual construction of solidarity, and the influence of technology
Affordance · Cognitive psychology · Mass media · Media studies · Online community · Political science · Politics · Social media · Sociology · Solidarity · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Psychology · Public Relations and Crisis Communication · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Psychology
Instagrammatics and digital methods
Funeral and Instagram
Mourning 2.0—Continuing Bonds Between the Living and the Dead on Facebook
Digital photography
Good Morning Fitfam’
Written in these scars are the stories I can’t explain’
Pizza, beer and kittens
Please Know That You Are Not Alone with Your Pain”
Beyond the Grave
The media’s coverage of mass public shootings in America
Media Coverage and Solidarity after Tragedies
Sudden Solidarity and the Rush to Normalization
Lafayette Strong
Memorializing Columbine
I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately
The Dynamics of Issue Frame Competition in Traditional and Social Media
Global Online Subculture Surrounding School Shootings
The Contested Meaning of the Crosses at Columbine
The Columbine Shootings and the Discourse of Fear
From expressing solidarity to mocking on Twitter
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Do not Click 'Like' When Somebody has Died
We haven't even buried the dead yet
Rituals of Solidarity and Security in the Wake of Terrorist Attack
Crime as a Source of Solidarity
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |