Abstract Death, bereavement, and grief are part of everyone's life experience. In the last few decades, media and social network platforms gradually began to influence people’s ways of perceiving and coping with death and dying, and the research on the phenomenon of digital death is growing. Facebook is one of the most known and used social networks, and one of the few that developed specific measures to manage the profile pages of the deceased users. Based on these premises, this survey aimed to investigate how 1281 Italian participants, aged 14–77 years old, approach death on Facebook with respect to their opinions, attitudes, and emotional reactions, through an ad-hoc online survey. The results highlight how the participants seem to have different attitudes and emotions toward death, grief and mourning on the social network platform. The age of the participants seems to influence the use of the social network and the attitudes and the emotions toward the topic of investigation. Moreover, for this Italian sample, the custom of grieving and commemorating on social media is starting to spread along with the usual cultural practices without replacing them.

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社交网络上的死亡与死亡：意大利调查

摘要 死亡、丧亲之痛和悲伤是每个人生活经历的一部分。在过去的几十年里，媒体和社交网络平台逐渐开始影响人们对死亡和死亡的感知和应对方式，对数字死亡现象的研究越来越多。Facebook 是最著名和最常用的社交网络之一，也是少数制定具体措施来管理已故用户的个人资料页面的社交网络之一。基于这些前提，本调查旨在通过一项临时在线调查，调查 1281 名 14-77 岁的意大利参与者如何在 Facebook 上就他们的观点、态度和情绪反应接近死亡。结果突显了参与者对社交网络平台上的死亡、悲伤和哀悼似乎有不同的态度和情绪。参与者的年龄似乎会影响社交网络的使用以及对调查主题的态度和情绪。此外，对于这个意大利样本，在社交媒体上哀悼和纪念的习俗开始与通常的文化习俗一起传播，而没有取代它们。