Alessandra Micalizzi
IULM University
Communication Institute, Milan

Mourning network: ethnography and new social practices in on-line communities

In this paper we propose some results of a wider research, realised by ethnographic approach, about the role of the Net as (socio-cultural) relational context where to share and to overpass the experience of mourning. By a narrative glance, we’ll describe the peculiar reality of on-line community about loss and mourning and, above all, we’ll focus on the social dynamics, the motivations – that push people to enter in this specific e-places – and the functions of the Net in the situation of the mourning