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Digital storytelling: Narrating meaning in bereavement
Abigail J Rolbiecki1, Karla Washington1, Katina Bitsicas2
1Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
Death Studies
|March 18, 2021
Summary
Digital Storytelling aids bereaved individuals in making sense of death, fostering healing. This multimedia approach helps process grief through narrative, supporting continuing bonds and identity shifts.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Grief Studies
- Digital Humanities
Background:
- Difficulty making sense of death can lead to complicated bereavement.
- Digital Storytelling (DS) is a multimedia narrative technique.
- DS may facilitate meaning-making processes in grief.
Purpose of the Study:
- To describe meaning-making processes in bereaved individuals' digital stories.
- To identify specific meaning-making elements within these narratives.
Main Methods:
- Secondary qualitative analysis of 14 personally-created digital stories.
- Analysis focused on identifying meaning-making processes.
Main Results:
- Identified meaning-making processes included: sense-making, benefit finding, continuing bonds, shifting identity, and addressing unfinished business.
- Findings align with previous research on grief and meaning-making.
Conclusions:
- Digital Storytelling appears to be an effective arts-based intervention for facilitating meaning-making in bereavement.
- DS can be a tool to communicate complex grief experiences and support psychological adjustment.
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