Group Portraits,Emotion Flowing And Theme Writing Of Online Mourning

Body away,but data forever and the dead exist in technology.In the Internet composed of numbers and information,traces of the dead are left in the virtual world.When old people stay,new people come,mourning groups are resisting the forgetfulness.With the help of content analysis and emotion analysis,this paper based on Bilibili,will focus on 16 dead Uploader and related more than 410,000 comments text and about 270,000 user information.It is trying to track the distribution and trajectory of their emotions,and exploring the writing of multiple discourses outside the mourning text,in order to outline a true picture of online mourning.The main findings of the research are as follows: First,most of the dead Uploaders are the personalized and highly identifiable victims.Participants in the mourning mostly choose gender anonymity,which can be divided into "passers-by" and "guardian" roles.Second,the online mourning in Bilibili will not end with the passage of time.At the beginning,"sadness" was the mainstream,and subsequent "good","happy" and "disgust" gradually rose,and various mood fluctuations interlaced.The thematic discourse includes greetings in the morning and evening,daily sharing,expressing sadness,holiday blessings,caring through the air,missing,refusing to believe,check-in,interaction,and criticism of cyber violence,which also have multiple attributes.Additionally,the topics(building in building)such as suicide imitation,pain writing and information diffusion have hidden interactive significance of life.Different from offline funerals and farewell ceremonies,online mourning projects young people’s frank concept of life and death,and is not restricted by the boundaries of identities and rituals.Participants are not submerged in high-density expressions of sadness,but are extended as shared behaviors.The platform and users also shape each other here,forming a unique practice of mourning on social platforms.